I first started to think about random strings when going through the process of registering an application for Windows Delegated Authentication service.
As part of the application you are asked to provide a secret key. You want this to be difficult to guess so a random string is going to be best.
Humans are astoundingly bad at being random and I just slapped the keyboard a few times until I felt I had the required 16 characters.
Writing some...
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