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Old Apr 9, 2013 | 3:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Zarf4
NameCoin is exactly right. These days MD5 are extraordinarily vulnerable to dictionary attacks especially since RockYou.com was hacked and 32+ million actual user passwords were made public. This dictionary is the gold standard and has allowed script kiddies to be credible hackers. Agree with others that FlyerTalk logins are a low value target, but salting the passwords is a relatively trivial task which would greatly improve the security.
Hah, true, true. Fine, I'll suggest this to the board admins and we'll see what they say.
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