sqgl@beehaw.org to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoMeta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintexttherecord.mediaexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down11
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minus-squareFrederikNJS@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThe author of the article is clearly just confusing “encryption”, “cryptography” and “hashing”. Reading the full article makes it clear that the intention was to salt and hash the passwords, not encrypting them.
The author of the article is clearly just confusing “encryption”, “cryptography” and “hashing”. Reading the full article makes it clear that the intention was to salt and hash the passwords, not encrypting them.