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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by hsnewman on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:09PM (#19454708)
This does not sound like logging, because I would imagine that logs wouldn't be kept for years (2012!). The article implies that the passwords were stored and searchable in clear text. Yes, logs can be searchable, but this isn't what the article implies.
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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by karthikshan on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:52PM (#19458789)
The article doesn't claim that passwords from 2012 are viewable today, just that they have been storing them in plaintext since 2012.
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