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T-Mobile Austria stores passwords as plain text, Outlook gets message crypto, and more

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Re: T-Mobile

> Each combination is hashed and the hashes stored together with a note of the positions of the characters of that combination.

This certainly provides *more* information about the password than a single hash if it leaks. Might need some new clever rainbow table tricks or something, but anyway: do not attempt home-baked security based on ideas you gave about 20s of thought...

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