Fracking also reduces carbon emissions, because natural gas power plants emit significantly less CO2 than comparable coal-fired plants. But just like with their irrational, emotion-driven aversion to nuclear, feeling like they're doing something is more important than concrete, reasonably achievable goals.
Well, the dictator I'm interested in overthrowing isn't so much Xao Bai Din, but more Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Susan Wocjizkcjzi or whatever her face is, and so on. The state will not go after these people, and will probably actively protect them against non-violent resistance from the people. Maybe you're more of an optimist than I am.
I was replying to your other reply implying hashes weren't how this works.
Where did I imply that?
They are still storing a password, just not the plaintext password.
But that's the thing, they aren't. A hash is not a one-to-one function. It's many-to-one (guaranteed by the pigeonhole principle). There are many possible passwords that result in the same hash value, so really you could login by typing in something that's not your password. Finding collisions is extremely hard with a decent hash function, of course, but the important point of principle is that in a well-designed system the server doesn't even have to see your password in order to properly authenticate you. It's not storing passwords. It's storing hashes. That's the crucial bit.
Looks like you've now edited the reply to make yourself look smart though, congratulations.
I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't edit my replies and have no interest in 'looking smart', I just want to have some mod please confirm that yes they're hashing and salting, how could I even suggest otherwise.
Of course they aren't,
How do you know?
and of course that isn't what he meant.
How do you know?
silly assumption that passwords are stored in plain text.
Oh yeah I'm so silly, that's never happened before or anything, I mean it's practically unheard of.
Like I said. I think it's likely the mod (who deferred to another on the technical questions) simply used imprecise language, but this is important enough that it merits clarification.
I repeat: no serious website stores its users' passwords. It's a huge security hole. It stores a hash, which is the result of the application of a one-way function (in practice, a function that nobody knows how to invert, like SHA-256), together with a random string called a 'salt' (but let's ignore that for now). When you try to log in, the system computes the hash of the password you input, and compares that hash with the hash stored in the database. It correctly compares whether it was given the correct password even though it doesn't know what your password is. This is a very important security matter. Without it, if the database ever becomes compromised, the hacker gets easy access to all the users' passwords, which given the rampant practice of password reuse, would be an absolute nightmare.
Like I said, I think it's likely that this is being done correctly and this was just imprecise wording on the mod's part, but it merits asking for clarification.
Of course it is. That's why when you log in, the website doesn't say DeRFffff ???????
Well, no. No serious website stores passwords.
The way passwords are stored is typically something called salt and hash
I know how salting and hashing works. The point is that it's very much not the same as storing passwords (in plaintext), which is what the comment I responded to seemed to imply was being done.
Just like when they cockblocked any mention of the chinese flu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ7lV8UPLJM
Hiring Chinese needs to be made illegal.
"intentionally misleading people by giving them only part of the evidence is infuriating"
Curious thing to say from someone who just conveniently forgot to address the ballots being run through the machine multiple times.
There is the talent within the conservative MAGA base to do literally anything, but there is not the funding
Linux was largely developed by volunteers. We don't even need to start from scratch precisely because of the huge amount of free software under licenses like the GPL. We can do this.
Is there anyone who's not at this point?