[Mimedefang] FYI: LinkedIn MIMEDefang group is gone

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:18:10 -0500
Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:

> Thankfully, LinkedIn uses a reasonably unique password unlike
> anywhere else I run on the web.

I use randomly-generated passwords for all my web sites and they're
all at least 16 characters long (unless a web site won't allow such
long passwords).

So even if my LinkedIn password had been compromised (it wasn't... I
downloaded the list of hashes and checked) I'd be OK.

But LinkedIn apparently stored pure SHA1 hashes of the passwords instead of
salting them, something UNIX has been doing since the Mesozoic era.

I have a Facebook account, but I don't use it except to check up on my
kids every now and then. :)

Regards,

David.