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60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 days ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that means it cannot be leaked

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but what would you do with it? Can you convert the bytes to work on any other sensor the victim may also use their fingerprint? Never looked into the real implementation details of the fingerprint hardware.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Sometimes you can. Or just bruteforce a colliding pattern that matches to print that instead, because why not