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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law – I can't tell if this is a serious suggestion or not...

In case it is, a HMAC (which a salted hash effectively is, except keys are secret) helps in the case of them losing the database, but not if they also lose the key, and the NSA will get access to the key as well as the database, so it won't help there.



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