[nexa] Facebook buys black market passwords to keep your account safe

Pratica discutibile. Come se comperare droga migliorasse la sicurezza dei tossicodipendenti. Di sicuro incentiva il mercato della droga. <https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-web-su...> [] To check that Facebook members are not choosing these commonly used passwords for their accounts, Stamos revealed, the social network buys passwords hackers are selling on the black market and cross-references them with encrypted passwords used on the site. He described the task as "computationally heavy" but said that as a result of the exercise Facebook has been able to alert tens of millions of users that their passwords needed changing because they weren't strong enough. []