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0 pointsSohcahtoa821y ago0 comments

"MyPasswordIsSecureDespiteNotBeingComplexBecauseItIsLong_BobsForum" is great until Bob's Forum gets hacked and it turns out that they were storing your password in plain text and your password of "MyPasswordIsSecureDespiteNotBeingComplexBecauseItIsLong_Google" becomes easily guessed.

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zzo38computer1y ago

One way to mitigate such a problem is to use the hash of this text as the password, instead of using the text directly.

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zzo38computer1y ago

One way to mitigate such a problem is to use the hash of this text as the password, instead of using the text directly.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse