Probability of characters of password revealed

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Submission + - Probability of characters of password revealed (r-bloggers.com)

Submitted by

denobug

on Saturday June 18, 2011 @03:02PM

denobug writes: "With the new trove of password data revealed by Sony's debacle, R-bloggers has a very interesting piece about the basic probability of characters of passwords. So time to change the password to something less possible to guess than just "1,2,3"?"

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