Billions of login credentials have been leaked online
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#22FA makes this a non-issue, no? You will get notificaton if someone failed to log in.
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#3> Sixteen billion is roughly double the amount of people on Earth today, signaling that impacted consumers may have had credentials for more than one account leaked
Interesting use as "may have" as that would imply, mathematically speaking, that there are people who were impacted at least twice...
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#4> Sixteen billion is roughly double the amount of people on Earth today, signaling that impacted consumers may have had credentials for more than one account leaked Interesting use as "may have" as that would imply, mathematically speaking, that there are people who were impacted at least twice...
The subject of that sentence was consumers. Individual consumers 'may have' multiple credentials leaked
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#5> Sixteen billion is roughly double the amount of people on Earth today, signaling that impacted consumers may have had credentials for more than one account leaked Interesting use as "may have" as that would imply, mathematically speaking, that there are people who were impacted at least twice...
The list might also span a large time period and contain multiple versions of a user's credentials.
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#6> Sixteen billion is roughly double the amount of people on Earth today, signaling that impacted consumers may have had credentials for more than one account leaked Interesting use as "may have" as that would imply, mathematically speaking, that there are people who were impacted at least twice...
To be fair, we really have no idea how many people are on Earth today. Eight billion is our best estimate, but we also recognize that many of the sources used are undercounted to some degree. What's hard to determine to what degree that might be. A somewhat recent article in Popular Mechanics [https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a642223...] suggests that recent data may indicate that the estimates are way off... But who knows?
Granted, any discrepancy is probably not on the order of reaching 16 billion. An additional billion uncounted would be incredibly surprising. But also, the accounts don't necessarily equate to people still on this earth and maybe don't equate to people at all. Robots have been known to create accounts too.
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#72FA makes this a non-issue, no? You will get notificaton if someone failed to log in.
Not even necessary. Salted hashes are enough, assuming you used a strong password.
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#8This is a good reminder that forcing people to use an E-mail address as a user ID is a stupid and dangerous policy.
Voted down by amateurs who set their Web apps up this way. Killing the messenger won't secure your users' credentials.
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#9This is a good reminder that forcing people to use an E-mail address as a user ID is a stupid and dangerous policy. Voted down by amateurs who set their Web apps up this way. Killing the messenger won't secure your users' credentials.
As if users wouldn't just use the same username everywhere. So now besides telling them to use different passwords for every website, you also need to tell them to use different usernames.
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