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The answer is obviously to require all users to change their passwords and make them stronger. 26 minimum characters; two capitals, two numbers, two special characters, cannot include '_', 'b' or the number '8', and most include Pi to the 6th place.
Great! Now when I brute force the login, I can tell my program to not waste time trying '_', 'b' and '8' and add
Pi to the 6th place
in every password, along with 2 capitals, 2 numbers and 2 other special characters.Furthermore, I don't need to check passwords with less than 26 characters.