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I hate passwords (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

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How on earth can you both not accept the password I copied from my password safe and tell me that I cannot use the same pasaword again?

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[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 24 points 6 months ago (9 children)

If there has been a data leak, they might block your current password because the hash has been leaked

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If there has been a data leak, they might block your current password because the hash has been leaked

I'm sure that makes them feel much better, lol.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 2 points 6 months ago

The leak doesn't even need to happen on their site, they could check the password hash against known leaked hashes (from have I been pwned for example) and block it

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