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[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

What gets me is the "password is too similar to old password".

How do they know? Are they storing them in plain text? I would imagine the hash would change drastically even if I change a single character, no?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They pay a kid in Bangladesh 14c an hour to visually compare the new password against the old one.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just a dude they call al, short for Allen

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