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Add-on: same password, same identity. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not as far fetched as it sounds. Any website worth its salt will store your password as a hash, so if they started sharing the hashes with each other they could prevent you from reusing passwords without changing much security-wise

[โ€“] kamen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Any website worth its salt will salt the hash as well...