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Password stealing is the "Holy Grail" of hacking. Once a username/password combination has been found, the hacker has free rein to exploit that user account. Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption, and other countermeasures are powerless against stolen accounts -- precisely because it is impossible to distinguish between the real user and somebody posing as the user.
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