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What you are missing is that the cost of a false negative is over 1000x the cost of a false positive.

The number of false positives don't matter, and getting a false positive matters nearly not at all. 1 in 1000 good passwords are rejected. Good passwords are nearly random, and cheap to generate. That means that average person needs to re-pick a password once every, what, 100 years?




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