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It would take "About 487,375 nonillion years" to crack my gmail password.

This made me smile

Well, somewhat less time, now that you have entered it into a random page on the internet :)

Ah, no. I typed a password of the same length and same amount of lowercase, uppercase, digits, and 'special characters'.

I was way too paranoid to type in my real password. As I've now come to realise was everyone else.

I think the passwords you have on different services show how valuable that service is to you. For me, my Google Account is the most important account i have. It has a lot of information about me, and every other service I'm using. If anyone gets my Google Account, they've basically got my whole online identity. So because of that I try my best to make it safe. On the other hand, my Facebook/Twitter account have nothing of value, so while I wouldn't like them to get hacked, I don't feel the need to have a 28 character password.

It also told me it would take "About 3 quadrillion years" to crack my password of 11111111111111111111111111.

Yeah.

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