| ▲ | mlfreeman 2 hours ago | |
> Whenever I've written authentication, passwords are hashed on the client side and never transmitted in the clear. Don't assume everyone coding a login page is as competent as you though...sadly. | ||
| ▲ | encom 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
But the sites where I actually care if my account gets compromised - Steam, FastMail, DigitalOcean etc. - are very unlikely to screw up password storage. I'm never going to bother with paranoid security inconveniences for the crappy website my local pizza place uses. | ||