An article on the BBC recently called for people to use stronger passwords in the wake of more computational power available to hackers. We know that security needs to scale as computers become more powerful because security is ultimately a numbers game. A hacker needs to guess the correct numbers to get to the encrypted data and security is all about the amount of time he will likely need to guess those numbers.

This article by Emmanuel Carabott explains the current state of play for hacking passwords.

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