Yes, which is why I'm so skeptical of that claim. "I've put the password in because otherwise it would've taken 6 hours" makes no sense at all - even putting aside my napkin calculation; if it would've taken an afternoon of crunching, why wouldn't you just have done that?
because 6+ hours is too hard for a 140 char limit generation of people looking to get internet traffic to a blog while the content is still fresh in people's minds posted before anyone else does it.