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Havin_it

Re: Password strength lesson

>Password re-use is worse than weak passwords.

Weeeeel, it *shouldn't* be, ideally salts and other techniques discussed above should be used so the stored hashes would never be the same from one site to the next. But if they all just blindly do sha1($pw) then of course it's a problem.

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