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Re:eBay user data for sale? by rmc on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:00PM (#7784463)
properly salted hashs can still harm many peple. You could still run a brute force on the top 10k most common passwords and with ~150m averge computer users, you're going to get a few. And you have their email address. There's a good chance they're using the same password for email. Now you have their email.
Re:eBay user data for sale? by mischanix on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:28PM (#7784658)
With user-individual salts and assuming 100ms for a password trial, 100ms * 150e6 * 10e3 is approximately 4750 years, and while this can be done in parallel, it's not exactly a small amount of resources you'd have to devote to get these relatively simple passwords.
Re:eBay user data for sale? by ForHackernews on Thursday May 22, 2014 @02:30PM (#7785430)
Yeah, that's true. Due respect, but I'm not really worried about those other users, only me. Because I'm a human and I'm selfish.