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		swores on Nov 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 ... Passphrase still implies using actual words, passcode on the other hand does not. That said, for the most part people who chose weak passwords do so for ease of memory, not because they're so stupid that they think they are only allowed words.

gjm11 on Nov 16, 2010 [–]

Using actual words isn't such a bad thing if what you want to optimize is password entropy at a given level of memorability for naive users.

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