How Weak Passwords Beat Strong Passwords

Your "secure" 16-character password gets cracked in seconds while someone's "password123" remains unbreakable for decades. The difference isn't complexity—it's key stretching, the billion-dollar security method most companies refuse to implement.
Banks, social media platforms, and major corporations store your passwords like amateurs, prioritizing server speed over your security. Meanwhile, a properly configured WordPress blog offers better protection than Fortune 500 companies. Key stretching transforms each password guess from microseconds into expensive computational warfare, forcing attackers to burn thousands in electricity and hardware per attempt.
This economic barrier terrifies surveillance agencies more than encryption. The NSA complains about "going dark" when criminals use proper password storage because dragnet surveillance becomes financially impossible. Mass data breaches depend on weak security to remain profitable—fix the storage, collapse the entire stolen credential marketplace.
Modern algorithms like Argon2 and bcrypt weaponize mathematics against attackers, making graphics cards useless and specialized cracking hardware economically stupid. Yet companies choose profit margins over protection, leaving users vulnerable while claiming they care about security.
Your operational security depends on understanding why password strength comes from cost, not complexity. Choose services that implement proper key stretching or remain defenseless against billion-dollar surveillance operations.

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00 Why Your Password Doesn't Matter
01:20 How Password Storage Actually Works
03:40 The Evolution of Key Stretching Algorithms
05:27 How Companies Screw You Over
08:16 Economic Warfare Against Surveillance

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