I don’t normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I’m pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.
Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.
That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.
Anyone wondering about the
grepforballsresults around 11:40, it looks like Spotify uses zxcvbn as a password strength checker, which contains some dictionary lists of common words people put in passwords, in order of how common they are.Hackers will use this as one main technique for password guessing (as opposed to a simple brute force, like “0000”, “0001”, “0002”, … , “9999”, it will probably be faster if we start with “1234”, “1776”, etc.). When I say ‘dictionary’, I don’t just mean English words; the name of zxcvbn itself is an example of a common pattern, one that people think they’re really smart for choosing and super easy to remember and type, but one hackers will obviously be aware of too, just like turning
passwordintoP455w0rd1!.https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn for general info
https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn/tree/master/data has the .txt files
Why do people allow password atempts to occur often enough that brute force remains viable?