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Pedophiles don't tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed so I'm guessing dictionary words do the trick 90% of the time.

You know, users in general don't tend to do very well at picking passwords. The great success story of educating users on password strength is that, after years of telling people to use both numbers and letters, the most popular password went from being "password" to "password1".

Not to mention that it's probably unwise to assume that criminals of any sort "don't tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed". Maybe it's true, maybe not, but underestimating an adversary's competence is asking for trouble.



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