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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by chillydawg on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:24PM (#13180238)
No, sorry. They're borderline criminally negligent. When you have 1bn passwords stored in raw md5, a decade after the first rainbow tables were published, then you don't deserve anyone's business or your freedom.
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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by kuschku on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:39PM (#13180841)
Sure, it's borderline negligent.

But it's already a godsend compared to what many banks do, storing passwords in plaintext, sending reset passwords via plaintext email, requiring 4-8 character passwords that can only contain digits and a limited set of characters, etc.

I'd be more than happy if any bank would follow Yahoo!'s password standards.

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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by Kadin on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:26PM (#13187988)
Most banks don't have a billion customers. (There are probably a few that do, but not many.)
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