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Disqus will reset passwords for 17.5 million users... who may have been affected in 2012:
Blog comment service provider Disqus was hacked back in 2012, exposing 17.5 million user email addresses, the firm admitted on Friday.
The breached information also included Disqus user names, sign-up dates and last login dates in plain text, as well as passwords hashed and salted with the crackable SHA1 algorithm for about one-third of users.
The data theft appears to have occurred back in July 2012, with some of the information in the targeted database dating back as far as 2007, according to a blog post from the firm.
Disqus is in the process of notifying those affected and forcing a password reset as a precaution.
Also at Engadget.
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:55PM
In your opinion and in retrospect would you say that your digital stalking of those with a different opinion to yourself was essentially and stereotypically fascist? Did any such realization play a part in your decision to stop?
If the word fascist feels like a misnomer to you then would you instead say it was totalitarian? Or did you consider it to be socialist or liberal or part of and justifiable or required or demanded by any other ideology, religion, or conviction? Include convictions such as a sense of innate or extrinsic superiority of conviction of thought, feeling, or "morality".
Do you see any form of equivalence between the justifications that one could assume to be made by a person digitally stalking people whose opinions they object to and a person seeking physical violent confrontation against or murder of people whose opinion they object to?
Posting AC on purpose.