Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoMeta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain textwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down14
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minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·19 days agoConsidering how old Facebook is…. They probably never bothered to upgrade the authentication system because “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and it didn’t matter to their revenue.
minus-squaremagic_smoke@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-219 days agoPassword hashing has been standard practice far longer than Facebook has existed. Even by 2004’s awful, ‘archaic’ standards.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 days agoAt the time Facebook was invented, plaintext passwords had been a joke for years.
Considering how old Facebook is…. They probably never bothered to upgrade the authentication system because “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and it didn’t matter to their revenue.
Password hashing has been standard practice far longer than Facebook has existed. Even by 2004’s awful, ‘archaic’ standards.
At the time Facebook was invented, plaintext passwords had been a joke for years.