No. No. I'll say it again. No.
The purpose of the salt is to vastly increase the difficulty of pre-computing the password hashes.
If you use no salt -- an attacker who has your database can compare against precomputed hashes very, very easily.
If you use the same salt for everything -- an attacker only needs one precomputed set of hashes.
If you use a unique salt for every password -- an attacker has to have a separate set of hashes for every password he wishes to attack.
Yes, if your database is compromised you have a serious problem. But then, if you're database security is infallible, why bother to encrypt at all?
Defense in depth is key.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the theater cut was relatively small, and that most of their money came from the incidentals (popcorn, etc.).
A quick bit of googling and this seems to suggest that that is at least partially true. It looks like the theater does get more of a chunk then I initially thought, but still.... Among other things:
"...from a $10 movie ticket, only about $4 goes to the theater."
and "We'd sell more popcorn," he said. "That's where we make our money."
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No. No. I'll say it again. No. The purpose of the salt is to vastly increase the difficulty of pre-computing the password hashes. If you use no salt -- an attacker who has your database can compare against precomputed hashes very, very easily. If you use the same salt for everything -- an attacker only needs one precomputed set of hashes. If you use a unique salt for every password -- an attacker has to have a separate set of hashes for every password he wishes to attack. Yes, if your database is compromised you have a serious problem. But then, if you're database security is infallible, why bother to encrypt at all? Defense in depth is key.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the theater cut was relatively small, and that most of their money came from the incidentals (popcorn, etc.).
A quick bit of googling and this seems to suggest that that is at least partially true. It looks like the theater does get more of a chunk then I initially thought, but still.... Among other things:
"...from a $10 movie ticket, only about $4 goes to the theater."
and
"We'd sell more popcorn," he said. "That's where we make our money."
This message has been double-ROT13-encrypted for your protection....
"Hackers had successfully lured a Windows laptop onto a malicious wireless network."
You mean they just turned the laptop on?
Silly English pig-dog! They must have been French. Why do you think they had that outrageous accent? No go away, or I shall taunt you a second time...
Isn't this a DMCA violation against Diebold??
And yet another variation (albeit not hard to spot):
switch(vote) {
case BUSH: bush += '1';
break;
case KERRY: kerry += 1;
break;
case NADER: nader += 1;
break;
}