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submitted 1 year ago by Cabrio@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.

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[-] Serdan@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Passwords shouldn't be stored at all though 🤷‍♂️

[-] Vlixz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

You mean plaintext passwords right? Ofcourse then need to store your (hashed)password!

[-] Serdan@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

The hash is not the password.

[-] Vlixz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My bad! I just misunderstood >⁠.⁠<

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

If they stored the hashed password this thread wouldn't exist.

[-] TheFogan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Point is, a hash isn't a password. giving the most you don't need tech knowledge analogy, it's like the passwords fingerprint.

The police station may keep your daughters fingerprint so that if they find a lost child they can recognize it is your daughter beyond any doubt. Your daughters fingerprints, is like a hash, your daughter is a password.

The police should not store your daughter... that's bad practice. The fingerprints are all they should store, and needless to say the fingerprints aren't your daughter, just as a hash isn't a password.

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