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They are suggesting it for a security answer, especially one you give over the phone to tech support, NOT a password.



Irrelevant. It works fine for passwords too. The security of "correct horse battery staple" method is (nearly) optimally resistant to GPU (or any other) brute force attack.


Oh, of course, right. Misinterpreted that bit.




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