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I usually type a long string of gibberish, sneak in ctrl-U at some point and then enter my actual password


Unless the gibberish is the same every time, the repeated sound of your password will still be parsable from a long enough sound recording of your computer usage.


The gibberish is unlikely to ever be the same.


I think it is more accurate to say that the gibberish is unlikely to _always_ be the same.

I think one can tend to create similar gibberish over time. I've worked on a system where I needed to do a new signup every time I wanted to test a feature and I've run into issues where the gibberish I entered matched an account that I had previously created.


Everyone here has accounts in development databases named 'aaa', 'asd', 'asdf', 'qwer', 'hjkl', etc!


Nope, mine are all oeunt, oeunth, huet, uehis, ais, etc


You are a user of the Dvorak layout, I take it? Colemak seems like it would have a different fingerprint.


Yep! Always a bit of fun when someone goes to use my laptop for an end-of-sprint presentation and types a bunch of gibberish infront of all the stakeholders :D




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