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Sure, but all of that is preferable to someone getting pwned across all of their accounts for one of their accounts getting leaked.

Though I don't necessarily grant your points. Password reuse means you're susceptible to nontargeted attacks which is strictly worse than your concerns, like #2.

i.e. Filtering out weaker attacks doesn't mean you're more susceptible to stronger attacks.



I do agree in that I think individual-targeting attacks are essentially outside the scope of this topic, since you're fucked for a lot more reasons in that scenario, and it's very rare, relatively speaking. I was just listing it to be thorough.




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