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Unfortunately I'm not awake at all hours of the day to respond to internet comments. But if you want further evidence that their passwords are indeed stored in
by plsdonthack 7y ago
Unfortunately I'm not awake at all hours of the day to respond to internet comments. But if you want further evidence that their passwords are indeed stored in plaintext, consider that their password rule prohibits the special characters !, /, \, <, >, etc. You can verify that yourself.
- ncallaway 7y agoHow is that evidence of plaintext storage? Couldn't they do that validation before they hash the password, but still store a hash? I'm not saying they don't store plaintext, but restricted character's are absolutely not incompatible with hashed passwords.
- perpetualpatzer 7y agoThis is weak evidence as these rules could be implemented at the point of new password entry, prior to encryption/storage.
- kgwxd 7y agoI once used a small DNS hosting provider where I used a password ending in '!!'. I was in the process of attempting to transfer the domain to another host but it was taking them days, and they communicated several times they were having odd issues specifically with my account. In that same time I was learning how to use Linux and MySQL, and ran into issues using the same password for the MySQL admin during a command line install. That's when I learned !! is short for "run last command". Took me a few more days to think maybe that's what was causing issues at the host provider, so I changed it, told them what I did, and asked to please try the transfer again, and it worked. I never got confirmation the password had anything to do with it, but I let support know my suspicions.