Google as a password cracker. Amazing.
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by Michael Froomkin
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
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Recent Bluessky Posts- How lawyers help in the transnational effort to fight climate change: Caroline M. Bradley, Sharing Law: Climate Finance Contracting, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... August 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Native Peoples Law: Bethany Berger, Native Citizenship through a Different Lens, JOTWELL (August 4, 2026) (reviewing Lila Teeters Knolle, Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota, 44 J. Am. Ethnic History 44 (2025)), lex.jotwell.com/native-citiz.... August 4, 2026 Jotwell
- Gotta keep up with the times.... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Heck of a lot of truth in this cartoon illustrating new-to-me Brandolini’s law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol... (via @garymarcus.bsky.social in garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-critic...). Although TBH it sounds like something @mnemonic.bsky.social would have said... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Yes indeed, cf. Identity Cards and Identity Romanticism — ssrn.com/abstract=130... and The Uneasy Case for National ID Cards as a Means to Enhance Privacy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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Wwooww – Unbelievable, Thanks for sharing that with us.
Holy schmokes, that is kind of worrying.
Discourse needs a smiley of a bottom jaw dropping on the ground.
Carly,
Thats a bit scary.
Considering the number of people that use just a few passwords for almost everything from banking to forum logins this could cause a real problem. Makes me think I should change all of my important pass words again just in case I put some of the same ones on weaker sites.
Thanks For the info.