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FBaggins

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7. Exactly right

Reply to JohnSJ (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:23 AM

Oct 2022

Almost any system worth securing will be protected by more than just a password that you can guess millions of combinations without getting locked out. Unless we're talking about nuclear codes of course

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Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour [View all] sl8 Oct 2022 OP

Let's see them break my double authentication passwords with my cell phone verification JohnSJ Oct 2022 #1

Exactly right FBaggins Oct 2022 #7

Graphics cards for hacking passwords? bucolic_frolic Oct 2022 #2

They're much faster than CPUs these days FBaggins Oct 2022 #6

Graphics cards (chips) can contain 100's of specialized, "mini-cpu's" Pobeka Oct 2022 #8

Almost all of my passwords are True Dough Oct 2022 #3

LOL. nt sl8 Oct 2022 #4

Thanks for the info. I use 1234 and a capital letter, so's I'll always remember it. 3Hotdogs Oct 2022 #5

1-2-3-4-5! Probatim Oct 2022 #10

I don't worry about hackers Chainfire Oct 2022 #9