# My blog is getting hammered by the Russians

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blog-is-getting-hammered-by-the-russians/760907>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 26, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blog-is-getting-hammered-by-the-russians/760907 "2016-07-26T01:46:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blog-is-getting-hammered-by-the-russians/760907/21 "2016-07-28T15:46:47Z")

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> [@Me\_Billy](#):
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> Send a message to Donald Trump and ask that he get his Russian hacker friends to stop it!

**Moderator Note**

Let’s refrain from political jabs in General Questions. No warning issued, but don’t do this again.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blog-is-getting-hammered-by-the-russians/760907/22 "2016-07-28T16:27:06Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> **Moderator Note**
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> Let’s refrain from political jabs in General Questions. No warning issued, but don’t do this again.
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> Colibri  
> General Questions Moderator

Will do [not do].

Sorry!

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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blog-is-getting-hammered-by-the-russians/760907/23 "2016-07-28T22:54:46Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> Upping from an 8 character password to a 9 character password multiplies the amount of time needed to crack it by 52.

It’s always been a 12 to 14. But good reminder

I had good training at work on how people crack passwords. It’s much more sophisticated than I can explain here. And correcthorsebatterystaple will not work, nor will anything else that follows that approach.

The only way people will break into my blog is if they can break into the Google Blogger password server.

Now up to 2000 hits a day. At some point Blogger may send me a note about too many hits, and I’ll have to shut it down.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blog-is-getting-hammered-by-the-russians/760907/24 "2016-07-29T19:25:13Z")

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> [@Marion\_Wormer](#):
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> And correcthorsebatterystaple will not work, nor will anything else that follows that approach.

That’s not true. It’s not as secure as a straight 26^x formula would make you think. But, if we took the top 8000 words that people use and try them together in various permutations, that password is still 8000^4 combinations big (4,096,000,000,000,000). At 259,200,000 requests per day, it would take 21,647 years to reach 50/50 odds of cracking it.

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