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Posted on: November 13, 2007 7:28 AM, by Greg Laden
That's a problem because these random number generaters are used to make up passwords. So, malicious hackers potentially already know your password even before you know you need a password.
Academic paper on this vulnerability here, Slashdot report with other links here.
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