""Would you like to know what your old password was?" This actually happened to me from a F500 company..."
submitted by Parad0x13
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@DeveloperMemes
And as usual, I have to insist, that this feature ruined more lives then it improved.
LET ME USE 1234 as my password god damnit.
And let me re-use it. If your site is pointless, requiring strong password is just stupid.
@LukeAlmighty
By noticing how much better he did than you in the rankings? No, I don't know if Starcraft has rankings
@DeveloperMemes
By noticing how much better he did than you in the rankings? No, I don't know if Starcraft has rankings
@DeveloperMemes
@LukeAlmighty
I had an account somewhere (an employer, I will not name it) that wouldn't allow passwords that were too similar to the old one. That tells me it was definitely NOT a hash.
@DeveloperMemes
I had an account somewhere (an employer, I will not name it) that wouldn't allow passwords that were too similar to the old one. That tells me it was definitely NOT a hash.
@DeveloperMemes
@leyonhjelm @LukeAlmighty @DeveloperMemes it could be (probably isn't) a hash, by taking your password and generating a bunch of similar passwords and hashing them against your old passwords' salts. e.g.
password #1: password
password #2: pasSword
the second password could be rejected because an all-lowercase version of it hashes the same as password #1
password #1: password
password #2: pasSword
the second password could be rejected because an all-lowercase version of it hashes the same as password #1
@leyonhjelm @DeveloperMemes
Don't worry. it still could be perfectly safe, if they have it encrypted using the Cezar cipher...
@leyonhjelm @DeveloperMemes
I think they are the same algorithm...
@LukeAlmighty
I meant to type "double ROT13", which is twice as effective as regular ROT13
@DeveloperMemes
I meant to type "double ROT13", which is twice as effective as regular ROT13
@DeveloperMemes
@DeveloperMemes Oh god no!!!
Hacker got into my Blizzard account and played 2 rounds of free Starcraft 2....
How will my ego survive this?