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kevin_thibedeau
on Aug 28, 2018
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T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Dat...
Not salting passwords in 2018 is also idiotic lunacy.
tyleraldrich
on Aug 28, 2018
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This same exact strategy works with a salt as well.
lightbyte
on Aug 28, 2018
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He might have been referring to user specific salts? It would certainly be a lot more challenging for them to test every common password with every user's salt.
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