I understand what you’re saying, and that in the real world, bad security practices abound among average users who are likely to have passwords like “12345678” or “password”

But in this fictional scenario, my advice is directed at someone who has something valuable enough to protect behind a 121 character passphrase against a very determined adversary who has a Planck Cruncher at their disposal and is willing to run it for 100 years to crack that someone’s data.

A little extra security protocol might be worth the extra effort.

I can see how that would be unclear, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.

You’re describing the best case scenario for the person wishing to protect their password, where the Planck Cruncher guesses the password on the very last possible combination, taking 100 years to get there.

The Planck Cruncher might guess the password correctly on the first try, or it might guess correctly on the last possible combination in 100 years.

What we really want to measure are the odds of a random guess being correct.

The most “realistic” scenario is the Planck Cruncher guessing correctly somewhere between 0 and 100 years, but you want to adjust the length of the password to be secure against a powerful attack during the realistic life of whatever system you’re trying to protect.

On average, assuming the rate of password testing is constant, it’ll take the Planck Cruncher 50 years to guess the 121 character password.

And that assumes the password never changes.

If the password is changed while the Planck Cruncher is doing its thing, and it changes to something that the PC has already guessed and tested negative, the PC is screwed.

Hint: Change your password regularly. edit: The user should change their password regularly during the attack.

Each password change reduces the risk of a lucky guess by that many years of PC attack.

US: “No ceasefire”

Also US (Trumpublicans): “No arms for Ukraine either”

Ukraine: “Hey, we’re dying over here, we need ammunition”

The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.

That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.

His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.

The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.

What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.

I love how mommy worm has big hair and cat eye glasses, not to mention how they’re sitting on chairs at a table.

And, the aid packages promptly failed in both the House and Senate…

Harley is a British de-mining volunteer in Ukraine, organizing, training and equipping others to find, disarm and remove mines and other UXO (unexploded ordinance)

And jeez, there are so many mines to clear.

Ukraine will need about 757 years to be de-mined using conventional techniques.

The dude has XL-sized balls of Ukrainium.

I’m glad he made it to safety alive.

JOY TO THE FISHES IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA

It would be a shame if a few dozen explosive drones were to suddenly show up and blow it to pieces…

I find the boss battles in Pixel Dingeon too difficult when I am forced into them before my character is ready.

Pathos Nethack is a better mobile dungeon crawler with no time pressure for the fixed encounters.

Oh good, then twatter can now become as successful as Truth social…

According to a quick Google, the only thing that detonates the plastic explosive in TM-62s is a shockwave, which is how the primer detonates the mine.

So something that generates shockwaves violent enough to get through their casing over a wide area might work on all the exposed mines.

It might not be as effective on mines that are buried.

How can I make some?

“'Tis but a scratch!”

One of the classics!

Hopefully not a fly-by-night company so that they can actually get their money back.

It would be nice to see some photos of what exactly was damaged, but if you correlate the locations of the blackened blotches on the fuzzy satellite closeup with a before photo of the ship like the one in this article, it should have hit the wheelhouse with the radar on top.

Good! Lots of expensive electronics.

The Humpty Dumpty name pre-dates the image of an egg character that was created by Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass.

A popular theory says the rhyme may have originated by the story of a large cannon used by the Royalists in the English Civil War.

Humpty Dumpty was a term, probably with derogatory inferences, that was applied to large or oversized persons or objects.

The Humpty cannon allegedly fell off the wall that it was stationed upon, thanks to Parliamentary forces undermining it, and was severely damaged.

The falling cannon story became a metaphor for the Royalist leader, King Charles I, who was believed to be large sized himself. He lost the Civil war, and his head, therefore he proverbially “had a great fall”

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/humpty-dumpty/

In this case, I hope they can lobby the new House Speaker to pass continued large packages of aid to Ukraine.