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Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by hkai on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:03PM (#20527776)
What's the significant difference between sending a plaintext password and a sha256(plaintext password) to the server, except if the user reuses that password on other sites?
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Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by eximius on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:54PM (#20528924)
> except if the user reuses that password on other sites

Except you can't really except that.

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