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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds(bbc.com)

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Nougat@fedia.io
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“Extremely unlikely” != “never”

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It’s very unlikely to brute force modern encryption; but you might get lucky and crack it after only 3 or 4 tries. Just because there are 18 quadrillion+ possible permutations, doesn’t mean you have to go through all of them before you find the right solution.

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Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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Security is, and always has been, a matter of making your shit harder and take longer to break. Any security is penetrable, given enough time and willpower, just make sure it takes longer than it’s worth.

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riplin@lemm.ee
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There are an infinite number of values between one and two and none of them equal three.

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Nougat@fedia.io
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True and irrelevant.

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