Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text

Re:Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text by jader201 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:07AM (#7070122)

Pretty off topic, but I submitted this story last night [1] with the exact same URL and title. I thought whenever duplicate stories were submitted, it just upvoted the original submission without posting a duplicate story (that's what's happened to me in the past).

I originally saw this, and thought the URL was just different (even if just slightly), so I wasn't even going to say anything.

But since the URLs are identical, was just curious how the HN logic works when submitting duplicate URLs like that. Is it that too much time had passed, considering them "different" submissions?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7068298

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Re:Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text by robbiea on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:20AM (#7070227)

It's not the same URL. Yours was the mobile version (it has a m.) and his was the normal URL.

I think this one got more traction just because of the timing of the post too being in the morning and getting enough traction to make it to front page.

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Re:Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text by jader201 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:35AM (#7070358)

Ah, that's it, thanks. I made the mistake of clicking the link (I'm on a desktop now), and copying the redirected URL to compare, which was the same as this one.

That's what I get for posting submissions from my phone.

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Re:Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text by mirashii on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:20AM (#7070222)

There's a much easier answer, the URLs aren't identical (I chekced).

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