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Is cracking passwords even worth anyone's time anymore?

Most password salting is extremely unique from one website to the next. And as long as the salting increases the length of the string that will be encrypted passed 16 characters, it will be uncrackable.

It would be much quicker to social engineer your way into a system and just plant a script that honeypots unencrypted passwords.




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