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?

>>17

passwords are usually hashed with a shitty function like MD5 or SHA1

IIRC there were also plain text databases.

passwords get cracked online

They usually do phishing, so having weird rules to force 'complex' passwords isn't helping.

LinkedIn or Dropbox or Last.fm

Criminals want to get into something for financial reasons not for fun (maybe script kiddies want to do it for fun or fame). Think banking, Amazon, PayPal, Steam (holy shit man you know how much money some people put in Steam? FUCK! Of course some guys want to steal and resell accounts!).