Well, just that. Wich is stronger against trackers, hackers and doxxing threats? Proton VPN (I’m using this one actually), or Mullvad VPN?

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    18 hours ago

    How would anyone get the long string though? Realistically speaking. It would be difficult and unlikely.

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      17 hours ago

      It’s just numbers, no punctuation marks, no letters, no math symbols. No entropy really.

      For most people that’s not an issue, but some people out there can guess them.

      one way to mitigate that problem is simply to not load your mullvad account with more than 1 year of time at any given time. If your mullvad account has like…10 years of time then yeah, lots of people are going to mootch if they figure out which number has that

      Or even if they don’t mootch, they could just remove the devices on your account and fuck with you

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        16 hours ago

        Unless you are willing to do the math, “no entropy really” deserves a [citation needed]

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          15 hours ago

          Unless you are willing to do the math, “no entropy really” deserves a [citation needed]

          what kind of password has more entropy? one with capital and lowercase letters, numbers, math symbols and puncuation marks?

          or the one with only numbers?

          Is there really a citation needed for that?

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            Entropy is calculated from the character set size to the exponent the length of the string: E = log2(R^L). A long string of numbers can have more entropy than a shorter alphanumeric string with special characters. I looked it up and apparently their account number is 16 digits. That’s 53 bits of entropy, which is not guessable. Someone brute forcing would have quadrillions of login attempts to try.