On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:18:10 -0500 Ben Kamen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thankfully, LinkedIn uses a reasonably unique password unlike > anywhere else I run on the web. I use randomly-generated passwords for all my web sites and they're all at least 16 characters long (unless a web site won't allow such long passwords). So even if my LinkedIn password had been compromised (it wasn't... I downloaded the list of hashes and checked) I'd be OK. But LinkedIn apparently stored pure SHA1 hashes of the passwords instead of salting them, something UNIX has been doing since the Mesozoic era. I have a Facebook account, but I don't use it except to check up on my kids every now and then. :) Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
