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jeltz on June 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using Twitter to Build a Password Cracking List - ...

I see no explanation for why this should be better than just using an English dictionary or some other corpus. A comparison with a couple of easily found corpuses like the standard Linux words file would have been interesting.

gizzlon on June 4, 2012 | [–]

You should get some words that are not in the list, such as slang and "new" words.

Might want to concatenate the two ..

forensic on June 4, 2012 | [–]

It's better cause it's a little bit faster. That's all.

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