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0 pointsjammygit6y ago0 comments

Facebook likes their interview nonsense, but stores passwords in plaintext. I think the credibility of the system is in question

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jensvdh6y ago

They didn't store pw in plain text. Pw were accidentally captured in logs and those logs were stored in an internal DB. This happens often.

chopin6y ago

That's storing passwords in plain text. "Happens often" is no valid excuse, on the contrary. If it happens often you should know about it if you are a qualified engineer.

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0 pointsjammygit6y ago0 comments

Facebook likes their interview nonsense, but stores passwords in plaintext. I think the credibility of the system is in question

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jensvdh6y ago

They didn't store pw in plain text. Pw were accidentally captured in logs and those logs were stored in an internal DB. This happens often.

chopin6y ago

That's storing passwords in plain text. "Happens often" is no valid excuse, on the contrary. If it happens often you should know about it if you are a qualified engineer.

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