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Message: <blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1824382" data-attributes="member: 67742">Nick actually provided the link, not me.But does it really matter if it takes 11 centuries or 11days to crack a password?The few sites, primarily financial, where I enter my password manually, give me three or five tries. If I still get it wrong, they lock me out for a period of 15 minutes to an hour (depending on the site) before I can try again.By that time I have figured out what the password is and I log in, so I don't know what happens after another three (or five) tries. I'm sure they don't let you continue doing this for any length of time.When people complain that their log in credentials were "hacked" - if one checks the details, they weren't really 'hacked' in the way we are discussing here - the user gave this information away to some smart 'bad gut' who used social engineering tools to get that information.</blockquote>