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Some of the people who use 'hashcat' to crack a password report numbers like 100 billion hash tests per second, for some hash types, so 139.3 billion/sec is entirely reasonable. Terahash will sell dedicated hardware which can, for some hash types, test over 1 trillion/sec. Buy more hardware = faster.
This chart doesn't mention which hash type they consider, which is another problem with it.
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To get an idea of how meteorologists judge if older records are correct, you can read "World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922)" at https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/94/2/199/60223/World-Meteorological-Organization-Assessment-of where they evaluated if the 1922 recorded temperature of 58°C (136.4°F) was correct.
See also https://web.archive.org/web/20140103200557/http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=3 where a weather historian (!) discusses several record temperature reports.
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If academic pressures, music and art clubs, AAU teams, school sports teams, and a part-time job don't teach responsibility, how does adding chores to the list change things?
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Hmm, if 6 planets can be in the habitable zone of a planet a bit smaller than the Sun, then that makes the Firefly system sound ... possible? Until now I was annoyed about the number of planets so close to each other. Seems I should suspend that disbelief!
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Along similar cheeky lines, I could easily see it being used as a default value during test, and the test settings were accidentally used in production. Sure, it could be a hacker. My comment is that we shouldn't immediately jump to that conclusion and consequently believe that Canadian Tire is hiding things when it could easily be a sloppy or goofy mistake. Personally, I think having it come up as "hacksaw" would be more grey hat.
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Internal developers make goofy mistakes sometimes. Years ago, a co-worker worked for the Chicago E-911 system. They did a database update which ended routing all calls to one location, rather than the nearest one. Read enough RISKS Digest and you'll see that fat-fingered coding isn't so uncommon that one should immediately assume hacking.
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