Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext.

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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.

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You mean plaintext passwords right? Ofcourse then need to store your (hashed)password!

The hash is not the password.

My bad! I just misunderstood >⁠.⁠<

If they stored the hashed password this thread wouldn't exist.

Point is, a hash isn't a password. giving the most you don't need tech knowledge analogy, it's like the passwords fingerprint.

The police station may keep your daughters fingerprint so that if they find a lost child they can recognize it is your daughter beyond any doubt. Your daughters fingerprints, is like a hash, your daughter is a password.

The police should not store your daughter... that's bad practice. The fingerprints are all they should store, and needless to say the fingerprints aren't your daughter, just as a hash isn't a password.