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submitted 18 hours ago by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.

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[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 50 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Muneeb Akhter asked Sohaib Akhter for the plaintext password

The more scary part in this story is that the government stores your passwords in plain text!

So basically ANYONE with access to the database can steal your credentials, including employees, the government and any authorities.

Never re-use passwords.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Never heard of hashing and salting apparently

[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 5 points 8 hours ago

"Oh yeah we did that at the last company barbeque event. They hashed and salted all the steaks"