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I remembered seeing these stats before. They are a few years old, right? Google lists the publishing date for those stats as 1 April 2002. Seems like a subset too.

I really enjoy using Google's spelling correction, but what really would blow my mind, is if I one day can search for:

  ntoymru d[rstd

and get results for "britney spears". It seldomly happens when I calibrate my index fingers over the wrong keys.

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> ntoymru d[rstd

>It seldomly happens when I calibrate my index fingers over the wrong keys.

I actually do that on purpose a lot... "unreadable password generator".

The trouble is, I think a lot of password crackers now include dictionary words offset on the keyboard in this way, so someone using a dictionary word disguised like this is still at risk of having their password inferred from a hash.

*@97oeh[5@9446Qg975%yq5-J6)qww294ewq43o9ht.

That's a substitution for: I wouldn't worry about that-my passwords are long.

For banking passwords, I use a substitution algorithm that's mathematically based.

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