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   Message 110,347 of 112,125   
   Alan Browne to Bill Powell   
   Re: RockYou2024 leak of 10 billion passw   
   07 Jul 24 17:27:23   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   XPost: alt.os.linux, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: bitbucket@blackhole.com   
      
   On 2024-07-07 15:03, Bill Powell wrote:   
      
   > Can someone who knows let me know WHAT was published online?   
   >   
   > Is it people's login and passwords?   
   > Or just a long list of people's passwords?   
   >   
   > If it's just a long list of passwords, what good is that?   
   > A dictionary like lookup would work as well, wouldn't it?   
      
   It's just a list of passwords.   
      
   Depends on what you mean by "dictionary" as the password list won't have   
   things that are in any given dictionary (no matter what the kind).   
      
   It is usable to verify that your password is not "in there".  I wrote a   
   quick program to do just that - but my passwords are too ridiculous -   
   never mind anyone figuring the login name and where it's being used.   
      
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