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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.


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.


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.




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