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by NavinF 994 days ago
FB been doing this for years: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/214814/why-can-...

Hashing multiple variations of your password every time you login will burn a couple of bits of entropy, but realistically if you're not using randomly generated passwords stored in a password manager you never had much security to begin with. They're just automating something that humans do manually

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Thanks for sharing it! It's super clear now.