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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nah, sha-256 is fine, though you should pick something stronger than "password"

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry I don't use that for my internet bank: 19513FDC9DA4FB72A4A05EB66917548D3C90FF94D5419E1F2363EEA89DFEE1DD

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

well, "Password1" is slightly better, I'll make sure not to tell anyone.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 7 points 4 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate that. I paid an independent IT security consultant lot of money to help me come up with it - so I don't want to have to change it.