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The title 'Keeping Passwords Secure' only covers perhaps the second, not so interesting part of this article. It does not cover the actual news item in this art
by Fnoord 8y ago
The title 'Keeping Passwords Secure' only covers perhaps the second, not so interesting part of this article. It does not cover the actual news item in this article: Facebook stored passwords plaintext.
- henvic 8y agoBack a decade ago, unfortunately, this was still commonplace. We should be applauding them for their initiatives for protecting user accounts, like MFA, notification alerts, etc. instead of condemning them for making this awful mistake.
- Fnoord 8y agoA little bit more than a decade AGO, but OK. > We should be applauding [..] instead of condemning them Why does it have to be either? We can condemn this mistake, while applauding their security efforts. These efforts were already known. They are not the news. The fact they felt the need to be as defensive as they are (with non news) is telling for me. Why apply damage control when there's no urge for it?