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Password: mikemikemikemikem
This password has similar entropy to the above password but would fail most common password requirements.

Citation needed. I suspect that repeating the password 2-5 times is fairly common and would expect password crackers to try passwords like this.

This is the problem of entropy for passwords, it depends on your distribution in complex ways. For passwords "buxeisee" has way more entropy than "pineapple" even though they appear to draw from the same symbol set and latter is longer. "pineapplepineapple" is much better than just "pineapple" but much worse than the random 8 letters and probably still worse than "pineapplepear".

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