Why is a password with both numbers and letters stronger than one with only letters? Attackers will include numbers in their brute force attempts anyway, so how does it make a difference?

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Why is a password with both numbers and letters stronger than one with only letters? Attackers will include numbers in their brute force attempts anyway, so how does it make a difference?

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Answer 1

If you don’t force people to use numbers/characters then 90% of people will be lazy and just use common words. This would mean when brute forcing, a hacker could stick to letter to brute force faster. This would cause a handful of passwords that actually use numbers to be even more secure but the people that use only letters (most people) would be even less secure