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Re:A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords by hrjet on Saturday January 10, 2015 @09:53PM (#8868848)
> If you have that, there is nothing to crack.

Alice is a system administrator of xyz.com. She has access to the password that Bob uses on xyz.com. By reverse engineering Bob's password on xyz.com, Alice can then attack Bob's account on pqr.com.

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Re:A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords by dippyskoodlez on Saturday January 10, 2015 @11:21PM (#8869007)
Unless you use pqr<space>, or cut space in half. Then that entire design goes out the window.
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