On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:40:28AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Here's the problem with all this. > > 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have > 2.183401056×10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric > characters with no punctuation characters, but the vast majority of that > space are random strings not suitable for nicknames or meaningful > identifiers. For instance, I can't see that any remaining meaningful > permutations of "john smith" could possibly be left. How many email > addresses do they assign a year? How many back-logged names did they > create at first?
Let's call it 26^8 or so: 208 billion. The real problem is the lack of human meaning and the fact that names are usually longer than 8 characters. How many do they assign a year? Roughly a freshman class worth, plus maybe a hundred more? So 1200ish. John Smith is out of luck. So is Elizabeth Jones. But still, they probably have better options than "[email protected]" -- the login I was assigned so many years go, can still remember, and have absolutely no use for. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
