Realize that the attacker must first possess the user/password database for this to work. This is because the author takes the salt from that information. Without the salt, it will take much longer to brute force... even though it’s md5 hashed.
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It is not deprecated. It is completely dead. Try connecting to irc.mozilla.org — you can’t because it’s permanently offline.
Why is that relevant? Tissue has been replaced by minerals which presumably are much denser than flesh.
Indeed. I don’t have to abide such people, and neither do you. Now if he had found a cure for cancer, would we have more tolerance?
For applications that want special access to my machine, there SHOULD be a barrier to entry or inconvenience like a client-side installation.
1. Research the latest settings I need to change in about:config to ensure telemetry & tracking are disabled, and privacy settings are optimized (and hope I got them all).
2. Install ublock origin and possibly other privacy-related extensions (e.g. to block finger printing)
3. Do this on every device which I use... I don’t know about you but I have dozens of devices between myself and my family
4. every time i re-install Firefox or create a new Firefox profile, repeat step #1 and #2.
5. Read the release notes for every Firefox update to ensure there aren’t new or changed about:config settings I should change.
When I can just use Brave instead?
You seriously do all 5 of those steps religiously? Because if don’t, you’re a step or 3 behind Brave’s our-of-the-box defaults.
It is well-known that Firefox and Chrome do their own tracking. no extension, ublock or otherwise, can change that.