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   Message 106,302 of 107,822   
   Bill Powell to Gordinator   
   Re: RockYou2024 leak of 10 billion passw   
   07 Jul 24 21:03:00   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.privacy   
   From: bill@anarchists.org   
      
   On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 18:27:18 +0100, Gordinator wrote:   
      
   > A better solution would be to use a hashing algorithm like Argon2 that   
   > is designed to be resistant to such attacks.   
      
   Can someone who knows let me know WHAT was published online?   
      
   Is it people's login and passwords?   
   Or just a long list of people's passwords?   
      
   If it's just a long list of passwords, what good is that?   
   A dictionary like lookup would work as well, wouldn't it?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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