The point of a salt is to make rainbow/dictionary attacks fail.
You can also set a salt of 0, or some other predefined value, for which you got rainbow tables for.
Real argument: if they could hack this site in such a way, why do it to the salt, instead they could just make the site say "yes, legit Q trip here", when it actually isn't instead of switching trip algo/salt.
At the same time why switch something around with trips right before Q posts. I really don't get it. And why is the Q trip the same, when every other trip got changed up. It makes no sense to me. Maybe it was to lock everyone else out of trips, I would like to know what it's about.
At least anontimes gets notables not through RSS, otherwise they would have been fucked.