Every website has access to the password you use on that website. ALWAYS use unique and randomly generated passwords for every service.
burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Oh no, that’s not even the half of it. The admin for your instance has access to literally anything on their server, including passwords afaik. If you want privacy, this ain’t it chief.
kpw@kbin.social 6 months ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
including passwords afaik
Nobody has access to passwords. They have access to password hashes, which are not the same thing. It would be the absolute most half baked of solutions to still be saving passwords in cleartext.
acausal_masochist@awful.systems 6 months ago
Which isn’t to say it doesn’t happen. I still occasionally get my password emailed back to me from small handbuilt websites. Which is part of why you should at the very least never use the same password twice.
russjr08@bitforged.space 6 months ago
They have access to your password hash, effectively the “infrastructure” admin(s) as I’ll call it (not admins of the site - they need to have access to the actual system that is running the instance) have access to the same things that infrastructure admins of another site would have.
burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Ah, guess i misunderstood a comment on here.