10 chars, no special characters and that's it
Just tell me that you want to have access to my videos and be done with it
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Yeah, that's not optimal. My single-sourced, non-verified quick Google search tells me that brute forcing a 10-char password of lower case letters only would be instant, subbing out one char for an upper-case letter would increase to one month, and subbing out another char for a number raises that to 6 years. Simply allowing for a special char would take 50 years.
That's assuming the password is truly random. Use a dictionary with some rule sets, and make some assumptions like people will probably just append a number to the end of their password, and you'll knock those times down drastically.
There's no excuse for not allowing your users to use safe passwords.
Assuming they're using some sort of password-based key derivation function it would be anything but "instant", depending on the settings they feed to the KDF. For some reason I doubt they are doing so, but just saying that it is possible for it to not suck that bad.