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Why did you ever trust Gawker?

I don't mean "trust that they won't compromise it" (though in this case it's a salted DES password -- on the gradient of exposures, this one isn't terribly high for anything but ultra-simple dictionary tests like password), I mean "trust anyone working at or for Gawker".

That's the point of these releases that really surprises me: People get paranoid because they use the same password everywhere...yet they provide every agent at every one of those places with their credentials and assume its safe.



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