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Right, so someone trying to brute force the password into the interface is limited by the speed of the program (or any artificial limits it should have built in :)).

In fact, just one word with a couple of numbers has the same effect.

Don't forget though, you are trusting this password to a site. If they are hacked, what then? Your 2K years turns into minutes or hours.



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