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by Aachen 879 days ago
The thing is, attackers don't need 20%. The article says they used 14k accounts with previously cracked passwords to uncover data of 7 million customers: that's 0.2%

Doing low-hanging fruit isn't enough here. Honestly I just don't feel like the time is right to build such big DNA databases yet. Maybe one day with quantum encryption (can't observe the state without modifying it) or whatever else we may figure out, but today it just seems like you're taking a risk for yourself and half a dozen layers of relatives