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jasonj79

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    Comment #11730441

    Neat idea, but defaulting to recursive force mode (-rf) is frankly a bit scary (and irresponsible). A great way to accidentally shoot your own foot off after you've put it through …

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    Comment #9776084

    Sounds like sour grapes, not discrimination... I moved coast to coast to work for a SV technology company (fully paid), did NOT graduate from a fancy college (or any for that matte…

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    Comment #8756076

    Having been a hiring manager for a few years... I can say that degrees have only really mattered to me when the applicant hasn't any real experience to speak of in the industry. Ex…

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    Comment #8629607

    I wondered the same, but I'm not sure that doubling my password would annoy me into changing it, especially when the password was previously capped at 8 characters.

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    Comment #8629593

    makes sense... hopefully this is their reason instead of the former.

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    Comment #8627811

    A better way to do this would have been: * hash current passwords with a salt, unique to each password entry, and throw away the plaintext entries. * keep a history of hashes per u…

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    Comment #8627774

    I't because they are still storing passwords in cleartext... If they were hashing passwords (which is the correct way to do it) there would be no limit.

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    Comment #6378268

    https://crocodoc.com/customers/ Crocodoc is likely generating web previews of your documents.