CarbonConscious

!remindme ~~10~~ 5 years

Good info! And that's exactly what I meant - a word is weak, but several randomized words together is pretty crazy strong. Slightly less than random letters, but much easier to type in memorize when the situation calls for it.

Another nugget I've heard, is if you include some random chunk in all of your passwords, like "*****" or something, even if it's predictable, just the sheer character count it adds already gives you a huge boost to entropy. At the end of the day, character count is king. (And the best way to remember long character count strings, especially when they are all unique per service, is a password manager. That's the actual real secret.)

Ya know that's what they say, but I'm not so sure - is your dictionary-based brute-forcer doing strings of three words together? Allowing for interspersed special characters between? The sheer character length of three truly random dictionary words in a row is already staggeringly high amounts of entropy - I'm not sure I need to be worried about an attacker capable of that kind of sheer number-buggery.

I mean to be fair, I think

"he had a secret conversation"

is a lot more forgiveable to believe than

"he had a secret conversation^~~~frombeyondthegrave!!!~~~^"

Idk if it was just my latent social anxiety interacting with that list of names or what, but those last few sentences were extremely hard to parse.

Right? These kind of stories start to feel like the hunt for "good guy with a gun prevents a thing" stories, where it's like yeah, it does happen sometimes, but the cost of enabling it to happen is beyond catastrophic for the rest of us (and, of course, born mainly by society at large or even more acutely by vulnerable populations, rarely by the people also benefitting financially by the whole arrangement).

It was actually doing pretty well as a product, and they were literally weeks away from releasing the extemely promising new version, but they got hostile-takeovered by Fitbit who was somewhere between threatened by their success and strip-mining the company for patents or staff.

Fitbit immediately shut down the new release.

Then Fitbit got bought by Google, who obviously has their own interests to maintain in that market.

Ok, but say I put my brain in a robot body and there's a collective class-conscious revolution: robot bourgeoisie versus the human proletariat. What side am I on??

Idk, maybe advertising isn't as lucrative in the era where your audience can't afford to buy anything you're selling.

Same chart, in aggregate.