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by adrianscott 5470 days ago
"So in this case, where the FBI is involve, using a SHA-1 hash poses no extra security vulnerability."

meeeh...

remember the fbi is not a person, it's an organization. the org can have bad actors in it who might be able to access the encrypted passwords but not be able to confiscate servers.

also, confiscating a server(s) is much more visible / detectable...