I just received an email from LinkedIn, with this paragraph:

LinkedIn has taken significant steps to strengthen account security since 2012. For example, we now use salted hashes to store passwords and enable additional account security by offering our members the option to use two-step verification.

The problem with this statement, though very beneficial to someone like me, is pretty useless for anyone not familiar with cryptography. Do you know why "salted hashes" are better than "normal hashes"? I bet 99% of the population that received that email, do not know the difference. If I were them, I'd rephrase it as:

LinkedIn has taken significant steps to strengthen account security since 2012. For example, we now use a more secure method (salted hashes) to store passwords and enable additional account security by offering our members the option to use two-step verification.