Brute force attacks can actually be used to guess someone's seed phrase. But... it is also very unlikely.
Brute force refers to trying different combinations of words, and for a 12-word seed phrase, there are 5.44 by (10 to the power of 39) different possibilities.
Even with the fastest computers available, it would take billions of years to guess a 12-word seed phrase by brute force.
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