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Funny thing, human scrambling is not actually random (it's a shuffle not a randomization) and neither is a coin toss. When asked to produce a random password, people gravitate towards nonrepetition and that dependent on medium they use to type the password in. This results in a highly skewed blue noise statistics.

People aren't random even when they try to be.



Wait, a coin toss isn’t random?




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