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		emmelaich on Sept 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password Note that !@# is just shift-1, shift-2, shift-3. So not unlikely that it would appear in a rules based approach. The password is numbers, english word, keyboard-sequence.

scottmcf on Sept 20, 2012 [–]

Thanks for that explanation. Being accustomer to a UK keyboard layout this didn't occur to me (as shift 1-3 is !"£ here).

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