43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach

Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:01AM (#12410745)

It would be nice if the EU would do something useful like require all sites to hash salted passwords and prohibit the use of weak hashes for new accounts. Instead we get the ridiculous cookie nag.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by hkjgkjy on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:25AM (#12411033)

Being European and computer literate, I hope the EU stops creating stupid and pointless internet laws

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by angry-hacker on Friday September 02, 2016 @05:15AM (#12411858)

Another vote from a fellow European to keep Brussel bureaucrats out of internet.

They have no clue or somehow good intentions always turn our horrible.

An old saying about countries that can't get together a government (like ironically Belgium!) - - it's the best for the people for having a country without the government because then they can't make more stupid laws.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by daphinz on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:16AM (#12410995)

How would you regulate that? Wouldn't that suggest that the EU would have some sort of access to private back-ends in order to check?

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by ryanlol on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:34AM (#12412085)

... Just like you'd regulate anything else?

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