Dr. Jeffrey Blumer, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Center
for Drug Research (the world's largest clinical research center
for drugs) and former director of the Greater Cleveland Poison Control Center, has this to say about colloidal silver: «
Common substances like
table salt and aspirin are harmless with normal use, but excessive intake can become toxic and even life - threatening.
Also, in a situation where an application forces users to use a weak password by restricting length and / or valid characters (think 4 - digit PIN), adding a 32 - bit
salt (4 characters) is only going to give you a total length of 8 characters, well within reach of a nearly instantaneous rainbow
table attack
for common hashes like SHA - 1.