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jarkhen

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    Comment #28503360

    I can't really speak to the first part of your message, since I've never really tested anything like that, but at least anecdotally I've never really noticed any additional click l…

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    Comment #28503280

    Believe it or not, League of Legends actually works pretty well on Linux (I run it through Lutris). It takes a while for the launcher to initially load on startup, and the launcher…

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    Comment #28040497

    With all the work that's gone into Proton over the past few years, the vast majority of games Just Work and there's very well-documented tweaks for making the vast majority of the …

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    Comment #28032326

    > I'm not sure how one could avoid dressing to express oneself, to at least some degree, unless you exclusively wear work uniforms or hand-me-downs. Exclusively wearing work unifor…

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    Comment #25841541

    > My company doesn't even hash passwords... I understand this is somewhat my privilege speaking here, but I don't think I could continue working at a company that didn't do somethi…

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    Comment #25734295

    That protects against an attacker reading network traffic. It does not protect against an attacker that has the hashed password from the DB. The only thing you need in order to aut…

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    Comment #25731962

    Ah, right, I misread the original description of what they were doing. As is, then, it really is just making the hashed password the new password. If I can get the hashed password …

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    Comment #25731517

    If the string changes each time, how could they possibly have the matching hashed password stored in the database?

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    Comment #25686730

    Unfortunately, your interpretation of facebook's motives require trusting that they'll only do what their PR says they'll do, and not what they're able to do. Or, even if that is t…

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    Comment #25578825

    Was there no concern about an attacker being able to -read- the contents, as well?