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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by jedberg on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:13PM (#26678159)
No you didn't. PayPal has never stored passwords in plaintext. I know because I worked anti-fraud for PayPal, and even I couldn't get access to that database, much less see passwords, even though I had a list of passwords I was trying to verify that I had gotten from people who steal accounts.
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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by chaps on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:09AM (#26678740)
Crap, you're right. Thanks for calling me out on that.

It was ebay, not paypal. Think I was paying ebay through paypal at the time.

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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by droopyEyelids on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:23AM (#26678612)
wait. so you think a plain text db of customer passwords does exist?

Or are you saying you couldn't access it because it doesn't exist

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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by jedberg on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:29AM (#26680521)
It doesn't exist. They were so secure about their passwords they wouldn't even let me check my password list against the database as an insider checking for fraud.
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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by dntrkv on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:50AM (#26678689)
If he has the passwords, he could hash them and compare that against the entries in the DB.

I think he's saying he didn't even have access to the DB of non-plaintext passwords.

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