How to Defeat Brute Force and Leave Hackers with Nothing
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Discusses why users keep choosing weak passwords (like “love”, “god”, “sex”) and how database breaches expose most user passwords even when salted hashing is used. Describes the trade-off that stronger, slower hash algorithms (to resist brute-force) hurt backend performance and references using breach databases (haveibeenpwned.com) to check compromised accounts.
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