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by h0w412d 4712 days ago
Well, have you ever not thought that after a password leak?
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Makes me wonder if the responsible thing to do when running a web service is to constantly dictionary-attack and brute-force your own server, and whenever it gets a hit, email the user and force a password change. In theory, the userbase would evolve towards better passwords over time.