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Analysis of 400,000+ Stolen Yahoo! Passwords
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RE: Analysis of 400,000+ Stolen Yahoo! Passwords
Sounds as if they couldn't afford even high school students to write the site, so they hired someone from a "rent a coder" site. This isn't stupidity, it's orders of magnitude worse. SQL injection? Even WordPress is better than that.

As far as the passwords themselves, that's a real shame, considering that using a different 20 character mixed alphanumeric password for each site is so trivial today - most password programs can generate at least that strong a password, and since they're all stored for future retrieval only one password has to be remembered.
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RE: Analysis of 400,000+ Stolen Yahoo! Passwords - by Colanth - July 16, 2012 at 11:17 pm

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