You definitely don't want to be using these

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait it's not? I remember some people in the industry recommend this sort of password albeit with variation of other random words as it's pretty strong and would take a very long time to crack.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If it’s a bunch of words found in any dictionary then with or without character substitution it’ll be easy to crack.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's not. A dictionary has on the order of ≈100,000 (10^5) words in it. Picking five words entirely at random gives you 10^25 combinations, which is about the complexity of 14 alphanumeric characters. So pretty secure.

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