The Russians obviously did not read my earlier posts on why longer passwords are often less secure than shorter ones.
So they forced their agents to use a 27-character password which was easily retrieved by the FBI… since it was written on a piece of paper.
The time it takes to break a 27-character password: a few hours (going through the post-it notes and paper scraps)
The time it takes to break an 8-character password: 242 Days (assuming uppercase/lowercase letters only, brute forcing 10,000 passwords per second).
(via Bruce Schneier. Password recovery calculation time here)
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