Your security teacher wasn’t insane! Today, someone remembered us that we have in our browser the biggest MD5 dictionary of the world!
“A security researcher at Cambridge was trying to figure out the password used by somebody who had hacked his Web site. He tried running a dictionary through the encryption hash function; no dice. Then he pasted the hacker’s encrypted password into Google, and voila — there was his answer. Conclusion? Use no password that any other human being has ever used, or is ever likely to use, for any purpose. I think.”
In: Slashdot