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Re: gmail security is a joke


From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 13:10:08 -0700

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron () heyaaron com>
wrote:

If they can e-mail you your existing password (*cough*Netgear*cough*),
it means they are storing your credentials in the database
un-encrypted.


No, it doesn't mean that at all.  It means they are storing it unhashed
which is probably what you mean.

It may well be that they are storing it unencrypted, but you can't outright
say that without extra knowledge.

  Scott


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