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Devil's Advocate: They could filter for obscenities before hashing.

• Bartweiss 10y ago
  The concern isn't that there's no way to do it, it's that there's no reason to do it unless the plaintext is going to matter again in the future. The best guess I've seen is that they might be hashing, but also having people read passwords to customer service reps. That would justify caring about rude plaintext, but it's also a terrible system.
  • billmalarky 10y ago
    Heh, to be fair, we are talking about a company with millions of customers that is consistently rated as "most hated" by consumers. I'd be surprised if a decent percentage of attempted passwords weren't "fuck time warner"...
    • Bartweiss 10y ago
      Hah. I can see some poor support rep getting a dozen calls a day with insulting passwords, actually - maybe it's about reducing call center turnover...