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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by maxerickson on Sunday November 13, 2016 @03:55PM (#12945613)
Wouldn't the leakage be catastrophically worse if storing CRC24 became commonplace?

If they leak, it becomes trivial to find working password synonyms to stick into the other sites you say benefit from discarding information.

Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by jon_richards on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:03AM (#12948692)
Wouldn't each company salting on their front end prevent this? If you find a password synonym that works for a single company, it probably isn't the real password, so it would give you no information on a synonym for another company (unless it is the real password, in which case you can just use it directly, no need to look for another synonym).