, 2005-09-22
One of my stranger hobbies is collecting interesting and weird anecdotes I find in the news. I have a few areas that always fascinate me, such as finding people who miraculously escape certain death, or items about human memory and cognition, or eccentric individuals who embody some strange aspect of the human condition.
Dennis
Most of the information in the list can be obtain just by browsing the eBay site (e.g. prices, feedback rating, bulletin board posts, etc.)
But the most ridiculous item in the list was PASSWORD. Internet companies encrypt users' passwords using one way algorithm and store them ...
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