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brownell

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    Comment #24811452

    > I'm still on two generation back Perhaps that's why you aren't asked?

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    Comment #18417413

    "Of the USA"? Is the USA a continent now?

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    Comment #18336769

    Perhaps not saving cookies is something bots tend to do, hence the number of attempts...

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    Comment #17176189

    So 1 million possible passwords? That's straight-up terrible entropy these days.

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    Comment #17136820

    Excuse my ignorance... You're saying that if someone blocks you on Twitter you're no longer allowed to post something with their @handle? Or that they, as the blocker, just won't s…

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    Comment #16995402

    The random-salt has to be stored, at least for the length of the authentication request, because the server needs to generate the same hashed-hashed-password as the client to be ab…

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    Comment #16991566

    So let me make sure we're on the same page... -- Server stores hashed-password, hash-salt, and random-salt. Server sends hash-salt, and random-salt to client. Client uses user pass…

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    Comment #15393129

    Did you even read the comment you replied to? Years ago they did not delete accounts. They would deactivate it and never delete the data. They do now (apparently), but in the past …

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    Comment #5213019

    I think you're missing something... parseInt('08', 10); // 8