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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
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[โ€“] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

well, "Password1" is slightly better, I'll make sure not to tell anyone.

[โ€“] oo1@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I appreciate that. I paid an independent IT security consultant lot of money to help me come up with it - so I don't want to have to change it.