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Is it legal to store password in plain text?
Today storing passwords safely should not be a problem, most languages have decent functions like PHP’s password_hash(). They procduce a string, which is as easy to store as the plaintext password. It’s not illegal to not hash the password although it would be very silly not to.
Is it safe to save passwords in notepad?
Yes, definitely. You should never write your passwords on any paper, or store in any text file on your computer. You can use a good Password Manager to organize and manage your all passwords in one secure place.
Can Notepad be tracked?
The answer is: no, there no way to know that, because you will copy plain text, just a bunch of characters, and pasting in Notepad will leave no trace of the origin… Beware of some characters automatically inserted by Word, like curly quotes or similar.
Is it safe to use Notepad?
With a text file in Notepad, the data is completely in your hands, stored on your local device. As long as you follow safe computing habits and keep your machine secure, the text file is not going anywhere unless you copy it first.
Is it safe to store passwords in plain text?
Companies should never store plain text passwords. Instead, passwords should be salted, then hashed. It’s important to know what salting is, and the difference between encrypting and hashing. Salting Adds Extra Text to Your Password
What are the disadvantages of storing passwords on paper?
Storing password on paper has one more disadvantage: it is very unstructured. Usually when people write down some password on paper they leave those papers in many different places, and they don’t care about destroying old ones.
Why is hashing better than encrypted passwords?
That nature of hashing makes it a better method for storing your password than encryption. Whereas you can decrypt encrypted data, you can’t “unhash” data. So if a hacker does break into a database, they won’t find a key to unlock the hashed data.
Why are passwords stored in plain text on Facebook?
In the case of Facebook and Robinhood, when users provided their username and password to sign in, the logging function could see and record the usernames and passwords as they were typed. It then stored those logs elsewhere. Anyone who had access to those logs had everything they need to take over an account.