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		icebraining on May 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: T-Mobile USA storing passwords in clear? The system could normalize the password (convert to upper/lowercare, remove spaces) before hashing it. It'd be dumb, but not as bad as storing in plain text. I don't find that likely, though.

streptomycin on May 27, 2014 [–]

Amazon used to do it: http://www.wired.com/2011/01/amazon-password-problem/

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