this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
1117 points (99.8% liked)

Technology

60060 readers
2944 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1117
Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
100 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope i dont get fined for

5e884898da28047151d0e56f8dc6292773603d0d6aabbdd62a11ef721d1542d8

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nah, sha-256 is fine, though you should pick something stronger than "password"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry I don't use that for my internet bank: 19513FDC9DA4FB72A4A05EB66917548D3C90FF94D5419E1F2363EEA89DFEE1DD

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

well, "Password1" is slightly better, I'll make sure not to tell anyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate that. I paid an independent IT security consultant lot of money to help me come up with it - so I don't want to have to change it.