Security is Bullshit

All these captchas, mandatory stupid passwords, no shorter than three letters, including non-printable digit, voodoo-key cryptography, security anus checks and you have spent too little time to complete security check.

I'm just a simple citizen, why should I care about this autism? When will humanity defeat find a cure from non-normies, by say gassing them?

>>10
passwords are usually hashed with a shitty function like MD5 or SHA1, and that was the case with many recent leaks. that's why they do get cracked offline - you hack the server one way or another, dump the database and fire up your favorite rainbow tables software (if no salt) or a bruteforcer (if salt) - that's why we have memory-hard hash functions like scrypt now. also, passwords get cracked online too, although it's usually more scattershot dictionary attacks to get the low hanging fruit because you can't make your job easier with a GPU and you're limited by connection speed.

of course, hacking the server just to dump the passwords is fairly uncreative. it looks like last resort - you couldn't get money out of the hack itself, you couldn't leak anything interesting etc. honestly, if I got into LinkedIn or Dropbox or Last.fm I'd rather replace the sites with goatse, it's equally uncreative but at least it's lulzy.

>>15
paste blockers are real and dumb, yes. it doesn't mean they're going to be mandated by the government. at least I hope so.