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Old 07-21-2010, 11:32 AM   #8
Rathji
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Originally Posted by mykalberta View Post
If they crack it they crack it. One great password is better than 5 ok passwords imo - not all of us use calgaryflames001, 002, 003, 004 as our passwords.
It is not about cracking the password itself, it is about finding a place you use it that doesn't have as good of security as it should.

Imagine this, you sign up for www.bobshouseofabortionphotos.com and use your superpassword. Next month, some anti-abortion nutjob hacks into the system and somehow retrieves all the password information because Bob didn't think it was important to have the passwords encrypted because it really slowed down log in on his Dell PowerEdge 110T server in his basement. Now someone not only has a list of IP addresses of those people who access that site, but he has a list of passwords that they use.
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