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" If your password has few characters that Telepathwords could not guess, attackers may also find your password easy to guess. "

This is somewhat grammatically tricky to parse. A better way to phrase it would have been:

"If your password has many characters that Telepathwords was able to guess, attackers may also find your password easy to guess."



Actually, it's perfectly fine if your password has many characters that Telepathwords is able to guess. The question is whether the password has a sufficient number of characters that are hard to guess. A 40 character password with 25 characters that are easy to guess is almost certain to be better than a four character password with none that Telepathwords could guess.




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