This is of course not the case, when a password database is lost and when an obsolete encryption algorithm like DES is used, users can not share blame.

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Well, that really does not make much of a difference when you expose the entire database table and have way too much faith in the 34 year old encryption algorithm reported to be used to safeguard the data.

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