Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account
by Nilithus on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:35PM
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This was talked about in another HN thread a few years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426544
It's not stored in searchable text rather they simply have some heuristics that they modify the password submitted and retry automatically.
Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account
by fakedang on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:22AM
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Thanks. That's a very interesting approach by them.
Re:How to permanently delete your Facebook account
by cratermoon on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:10PM
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Yikes.
Which leads me to think that Facebook passwords might just be stored as searchable text rather than hashes. Granted I'm no cryptography expert though.