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Just had a thread yesterday where people raged at the very idea companies and organizations still use poor hashing algos.

Here we have google storing in plaintext by accident.



It can simultaneously be true that nobody should do this and that even the best people can make mistakes.


I am reminded of the discourse on hypocrisy in The Diamond Age. That we fail does not mean we are insincere in our aspirations to do good.




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