• @Aceticon
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    91 year ago

    Grab a sentence you know well.

    Pick just the first letter of each word.

    It will look like it’s random - for example “I like my lemmy only with beans and bacon” becomes “ilmlowbab” - and it comes from a far vaster possibility space (ever possible sentence and it need not even make sense) than that of “words in the English language and derived words” so it’s a lot harder to try to crack with a dictionary attack.

    Also it works in everything that takes ASCII charactes (i.e. everything but numeric only pin codes).