“I told you that was a useless password dammit! You see the thing is, there’s a smorgasbord of hashes and their plain text equivalents just sitting out there waiting to be searched which is why it’s always important to apply a cryptographically random salt to the plain text before hashing. A straight hash of most user-created passwords – which we know are generally crap – can very frequently be resolved to plain text in about 5 seconds via Google.”
