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Comment author: kpreid 20 May 2014 01:41:25AM 0 points [-]

or whether anyone has explored this before

I have briefly thought about this idea in the context of password selection and password crackers: the "most unexpected" string (of some maximum length) is a good password. No deep reasoning here though.