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XKCD comic inspires an entire password generator

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Passwords are something of a hot topic around here at DVICE, and password generators are nothing new. Though, most times they give us nothing more than more of the gibberish we already choose for our passwords. Web comic xkcd pointed this out in this pretty popular strip.

Joel Walters was among those who saw the comic. But while most folks saw it, chuckled and moved on, Walters decided to go ahead and create a password generator that uses the logic expressed therein.
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