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YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed

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Re: YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed

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How many sites need to be humiliated like this before people learn to hash passwords with something like bcrypt? It's like two damn functions. You just call them! It's so easy that even a baby squirrel could do it! There is no excuse.

Until then, I hope everyone is using a throwaway password for accounts that can be non-disastrously stolen, and using strong unique passwords for the important ones.

Re: YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed

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Post by noobface »

pjscott wrote: post #2

How many sites need to be humiliated like this before people learn to hash passwords with something like bcrypt? It's like two damn functions. You just call them! It's so easy that even a baby squirrel could do it! There is no excuse. Until then, I hope everyone is using a throwaway password for accounts that can be non-disastrously stolen, and using strong unique passwords for the important ones.

It'll just take one congressman's e-mail password to be the same as his YouPorn password, then it'll be law to encrypt.
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