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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

These things are the other way around. The older something is, the more likely it is to find a bunch of questionable choices, spaghetti code, and security holes.

The questions I have surround the "since 2012" bit. FB exists since 2004, so what happened in 2012? Was it a data dump, a careless logger, system migration, or something else?