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Definition[]

Password guessing refers to:

a program . . . whereby various combinations of letters are tried out in rapid sequence in the hope that one will be an authorized user’s password, which is entered to permit whatever level of activity that user is authorized to perform.”[1]

References[]

  1. United States v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504, 506 (2d Cir. 1991) (full-text).
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