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revelation on Nov 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 mill...

Realistically the problem with that isn't even MD5, it's the modal popup that hasn't changed in any browser since 1999.

It's so unbelievably popular, Chrome copied the behavior despite not existing in 1999. It's all over mobile, too...

nitrogen on Nov 20, 2013 [–]

I wonder if the original reason for using a modal OS-level popup was to prove that it's not a fake prompt displayed by a malicious site.

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