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Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext(therecord.media)

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HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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It’s something that literally every dev has done at some point before they knew better.

If you’re working for a multinational tech company handling sensitive user data and still make this mistake, then you are being malicious in your incompetence. This is something that would cause you to lose a significant amount of marks on a first year college programming project, let alone a production system used by literally billions of people.

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delirious_owl@discuss.online
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen passwords appear in logs. Its always a struggle, everywhere.

Use TOTP

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