Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
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“Murdoch plugged the MD5 into Google which revealed multiple sites featuring the word “Anthony”, the attacker’s password. The approach hit on a result because the hash was in the URL [...] Wordpress stores passwords as MD5 hashes without salting…”
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“having large warehouses of data on individuals will [not] be free from unintended consequences, especially when there are incentives to try to build highly detailed models of everyone’s lives. The price of total personalisation is total surveillance.”
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