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On the other hand, shifting effort around, or increasing the amount of effort required... that can be enough. After all, much of modern encryption and hashing isn't based on making it impossible to recover the original text. It's based on making it infeasible for some (large) collection of adversaries within some (large) amount of time and resources.
This is totally true. But I think what ValynS is saying it's that, although replicating a huge database with everyone's alts would certainly be more difficult, it would still be relatively trivial for, for example, a single stalker with a single victim in mind to discover their alts. And it's cases like this that are the heart of the conversation.