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There I said it. Working in the security industry, it can sometime be embarrassing to admit our failings, but in this case it is cathartic.  I just received notification from the excellent HaveIBeenPwned service run by @TroyHunt that my LinkedIn password has been compromised.  I am in good company though.  The accounts of 164 million others, including Troy himself, were hacked and leaked in 2012, and are just coming to light now.  The problem was that LinkedIn stored the passwords unsalted using SHA1 hashes, meaning that reversing...