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These hashes were posted on a forum as a plea for help: the guy did not have enough computational power to crack them all on his own. Had they been salted bcrypt hashes, it might have actually discouraged him to the point of not even trying.

So yeah, the weakest passwords will always fall, but good solutions will go to great length to protect even the most clueless of users.



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