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		towelguy on Nov 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Secret Life of Passwords Couldn't they just access the data directly from the databases? Something they couldn't access then. Are they talking about passwords for 3rd party services? Or perhaps passwords for encrypted hard drives?

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