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Re:Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday July 15, 2024 @02:03PM (#40970061)
"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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Re:Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security by zzo38computer on Monday July 15, 2024 @02:04PM (#40970066)
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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