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PASSWORDS AND BRUTE-FORCE ATTACK - 1
I won't say much today: Listen to this hilarious yet curious interview between John Oliver and Edward Snowden


Now, he used the word Brute Force Attack: A topic we have to study in detail as we go on.
For those interested in learning it, here is a video on youtube. You can get a pretty good impression of the algorithm.



Let us meet next Week... :)
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