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The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Dumbest Password of All Time

passwords were just stored as plain text on the system that you were jogging into. The security downside of this is obvious, which is that anybody with access the server could just see everybody's passwords. It seems like we're at a point in 20 22 where, you i don't see very many stories any more about such and such service getting hacked.

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