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Wait, they stored passwords in plain text?
Possibly or as a weak hash
Always have done so.
🧑🚀🔫
This is like the evolution of the “loss” meme. Gave me a chuckle.
Sure, we'll just take your word for it, buddies. Cheers. /laughs in Linux
You can use Linux and still have a Microsoft account.
Can, but shouldn't. I have a work related Teams account, and one where I tried to rent a Windows VM for a consulting job. That's it though - no private data to get leaked. The work conversations would suck though, but I'll happily remind my boss et al why using Teams is a shitty idea in the first place.
Microsoft owns GitHub. The blast radius for this could be severe.
Yeah, but the naivety of people believing in secure clouds needs to die. So if this helps, I'm all for it.