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by wickrom 2623 days ago
How does Facebook, hiring some of the best engineers in the industry with the biggest bucks ends up in such a mess
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But think of the whiteboard algorithms they can all put together in a pinch
maybe they need passwords to login as user?
even if they want to emulate a user, they can do so without their password. Or if doing so in a simplistic way, they can login with said user's hashed password, instead of the original plaintext.