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Honest and small mistake? I would like to know more technical details

• haakon 14y ago
  He must be referring to them storing the passwords as unsalted SHA-1 hashes.
  • facorreia 14y ago
    I would like to see him explain why they weren't using salts before and why they thought that was acceptable.
    • rhizome 14y ago
      Undoubtedly it would be an invocation of the startup timecrunch trope, hence the honest mistake. It's analogous reasoning to large data breaches being successfully handwaved away. Heck, even the US Government says "...nobody could have known [things would get this bad]"