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		Wingman4l7 on Nov 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Weak passwords brute forced Ah, I misread that -- I thought it was if you had contributed to their repo, not simply starred it. I had left it out of the calculation for simplicity's sake as I figured most people would not have done that. Where did you get the 1,698 figure -- was that the number of accounts compromised?

alixaxel on Nov 21, 2013 [–]

It's not mentioned in the body copy, but if you look at the URL slug it's there:

https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced

borski on Nov 21, 2013 | [–]

That's not correct - I surmise that's the ID of the post in the DB. For example: https://github.com/blog/1681-subscribe-to-github-s-explore-e...

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