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ilyanep on Nov 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A crossword based on the Adobe password leak

Even better is that some people just use the password as the password hint.

coyotebush on Nov 16, 2013 [–]

I only noticed one password hint that exactly matched the password -- I'd have thought that would be disallowed. Plenty of hints that were the password plus one character, reversed, etc.

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