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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by oldmanbythesea3 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:47AM (#19453712)
People scoff at companies that store passwords in plain text on purpose. Inadvertently logging them is not the same thing. And Facebook’s scale is why it’s understandable how it could happen.
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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by code_duck on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:02PM (#19454622)
Someone had to write the code and then use the logs. Individuals, like any company. Then the article says it was actually searchable and used for something by employees. Why does the entire company’s scale make this excusable?
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