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by Sohcahtoa82 701 days ago
"MyPasswordIsSecureDespiteNotBeingComplexBecauseItIsLong_BobsForum" is great until Bob's Forum gets hacked and it turns out that they were storing your password in plain text and your password of "MyPasswordIsSecureDespiteNotBeingComplexBecauseItIsLong_Google" becomes easily guessed.
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One way to mitigate such a problem is to use the hash of this text as the password, instead of using the text directly.