diff --git a/site/features.md b/site/features.md
index 9804684a..ecae8862 100644
--- a/site/features.md
+++ b/site/features.md
@@ -157,10 +157,9 @@ or
 _NOTE: The command line option takes precedence over the environment
 variable._
 
-The password needs to be reasonably strong to guard against brute
-forcing by an attacker attempting to establish connections to a
-peer. We recommend at least 50 bits of entropy. An easy way to
-generate a random password which satsifies this requirement is
+The password needs to be reasonably strong to guard against online
+dictionary attacks. We recommend at least 50 bits of entropy. An easy
+way to generate a random password which satsifies this requirement is
 
     < /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c9 ; echo