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by cylo 3610 days ago
To make the password hash harder to crack. There's a big difference in time to crack the hash for "Passw0rd" vs "$)63hjbbdhs23".
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The hash for "Passw0rd" would almost certainly also be in some Rainbow table, so effectively no computation time in that case...
>$)63hjbbdhs23

Great, I'll just store this in my password manag... oh, wait.

Just write it on a Postit and affix it to your monitor.