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		kccqzy on April 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “anc... The problem with this approach is that now someone on the backend will mistakenly think, hey the password is already hashed by the client, let's just store that directly in the database! And now you essentially have passwords stored in plain text.

Sammi on April 20, 2021 [–]

If your backend and frontend engineers are that bad at communicating the api then you probably already have a lot of security problems to begin with.

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