Twitter Passwords Unmasked: What to Do Now

[Paul Wagenseil]

Twitter said some user passwords were left 'unmasked' and that you should change yours, though we don't know how serious this really is.

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[wzis]

This is very bad: password should never be saved un-encrypted, should always saved after a one way encryption.

 

[rgd1101]

This is very bad: password should never be saved un-encrypted, should always saved after a one way encryption.

one way encryption? you mean hash?

 

[DanIsHardWhere]

No, one-way encryption (or any type of encryption for that matter) and hashes/sslts are in no way related to each other and Tom has not confused them.