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I find that message misleading. The xkcd comic does have a point, and thus should be taken seriously. (Despite the obvious downside that those passwords take longer to type, which is why I still prefer short, cryptic passwords.)

So a better message might be:

"Don't follow the webcomic too closely. :)"



It actually says, "Woah there, don't take advice from a web-comic too literally!"


Its saying dont use that particular password. Any attacker of this script would know what it was inspired by and attempt that password in a dictionary.

Rendering it about as useless as 123456789 in this instance




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