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Originally Posted by GeoffC
what's the chance of that !!!
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The chance of using brute-force or the chance of succeeding?
Let's see... 8 independent characters... what are the allowed characters in the PID, digits and uppercase letters only? Then that's 36^8 possibilities, or almost 3 billion (3 trillion for Americans). If you can try one per second, in 45000 years you'll have tried half of them, and you might have been lucky already