<story><title>WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password</title><url>https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jialutu</author><text>Wow, it&amp;#x27;s quite disheartening to read some of the comments here. Let&amp;#x27;s try something shall we:&lt;p&gt;- open up private browsing&lt;p&gt;- press F12 (or however you get the developer console on a mac) and go to the networking tab&lt;p&gt;- go to gmail.com say&lt;p&gt;- enter your gmail credentials&lt;p&gt;- look at the post request generated, and at the request tab, it will contain your password in plain text&lt;p&gt;So passwords don&amp;#x27;t get hashed on transit, this is why having HTTPS is so crucial, which is to prevent someone in the middle (say when you connect to an open Starbucks wifi) from sniffing out your unencrypted password. The password on the server side initially can be unencrypted before it gets hashed to be stored into the database. So in this instance, the password in the database is hashed, but there is a small period where the password is plain text in memory.&lt;p&gt;For a site called hacker news, it&amp;#x27;s really sad how little people here know about hacking.</text></comment>
<story><title>WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password</title><url>https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilamont</author><text>The Axios journalist who did this, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, is a huge thorn in the CCP&amp;#x27;s side - one of the most outspoken, widely read, and retweeted media critics of China&amp;#x27;s domestic policies and international activities.&lt;p&gt;Allen-Ebrahimian has focused on the crackdown against peaceful pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong and the dismantling of &amp;quot;one country, two systems&amp;quot; (1), genomic surveillance of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (2), and Huawei (3), among other topics. Last week, a CCP mouthpiece publication labelled her an &amp;quot;anti-China journalist&amp;quot; for her work (4).&lt;p&gt;She also uses WeChat for research (5).&lt;p&gt;I believe her WeChat account was very closely monitored, more than the average Western user.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1263469429435883521&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;12634694294358835...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1268223947939745792&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;12682239479397457...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1206358641424683009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;12063586414246830...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1265793205628555264&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;12657932056285552...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1096165952264331264&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;BethanyAllenEbr&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;10961659522643312...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>