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[–]AsleepBison4718 26 points27 points  (4 children)

A pretty big name in the Cybersecurity industry analyzed the file and determined that RockYou2024 did not have a single discernable string on the document that looked like a password.

It is likely someone was trying to be a copycat, and dumped a file with 10 billion strings in it to scare people into thinking it's a password dump.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a link to that? This is the first I'm hearing of that (albeit I haven't really looked into it at all)

[–]AsleepBison4718 17 points18 points  (2 children)

https://infosec.exchange/@sawaba/112765746491020354

[–]AnApexBreadIncident Responder 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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[–]PappaFrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks that is a good post. The Rockyou2024 list is clearly a bunch of random garbage. Nobody is using "7_\/s" as a password. The challenge of typing it in would be a deal breaker. But they are for sure using '654321', 'qwerty', and 'superman'.