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Crypto-busters reverse nearly 320 million hashed passwords

petethebloke

Not really correct, but close

Most of the sites that have leaked passwords are not banks. If you get a "password" from a hash collision it is still unlikely to work in other sites.

@symon It does matter for Git because open-source relies on hashes not colliding to confirm that the code is right and proper.

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