>**Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately** The bottom line is that any system of securing passwords that uses a deterministic method can be cracked by a dictionary attack. Yes, the size of the dictionary will be huge, but if the results are saved the job only has to be done once. If you save the results online and Google builds an index of your results they become instantly available to everyone. So you Google on the encoded password and voila!
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