Proof that 99% of generating good conversation on HN comes from a well-phrased t...

daeken · on Sept 21, 2012

No, most of it is timing and simple luck. If you hit the right time of the day (when there are a lot of users present but not a ton of news) and get the first few votes in a good time (which is mostly luck), you'll make the front page.

cbsmith · on Sept 21, 2012

Actually, proof that a provocative but false headline on HN will still get the sheep to vote up your article. ;-)

aiiane · on Sept 21, 2012

For the record, the title was actually edited from what I submitted it as.

cbsmith · on Sept 21, 2012

...and it is still wrong. They do hash their passwords.

aiiane · on Sept 21, 2012

Encryption is not the same as hashing.

That said, when I said the title was edited, I was not referring to myself editing it.

cbsmith · on Sept 21, 2012

> Encryption is not the same as hashing.

UPDATE: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4552358

If mrb is right, it looks like they are storing it locally without encryption, which is indeed bad.

What I had written before seeing that:

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Yes it is not. As a consequence, they are not mutually exclusive.

The title would be correct if it said, "Pandora stores encrypted passwords locally". Guess how much less interesting your post would be with that title? ;-)

They hash their passwords. They encrypt their passwords.

I'd prefer they only did the former, but the fact that they do the former at all is NOT what most people commenting on this thread understand.