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Re:Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8... by cylo on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:17AM (#12208876)
To make the password hash harder to crack. There's a big difference in time to crack the hash for "Passw0rd" vs "$)63hjbbdhs23".
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Re:Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8... by Sylos on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:47AM (#12209199)
The hash for "Passw0rd" would almost certainly also be in some Rainbow table, so effectively no computation time in that case...
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Re:Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8... by yAnonymous on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:47AM (#12208966)
>$)63hjbbdhs23

Great, I'll just store this in my password manag... oh, wait.

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Re:Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8... by Relys on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @12:42PM (#12211188)
https://www.yubico.com/
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Re:Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8... by nacs on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:52AM (#12210804)
Just write it on a Postit and affix it to your monitor.
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