Dropbox hack leads to dumping of 68m user passwords on the internet

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5. Use salt...

Pick a good, strong pass phrase and then add a few different characters to it at the front or the end for each site. For DU, you could add DU to the base. That makes the hash different for each site. It's easy to remember the pass phrase because you use it everywhere and it's easy to remember the salt since it's short and related to the site.