Salty

Salty
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When your password security is so bad that even the waitress knows your hashing strategy. Guy orders something at the diner and can't identify what's on his plate, but don't worry—they salted the hash. You know, for security.

Salting hashes is Password Storage 101: you add random data to passwords before hashing so two identical passwords don't produce the same hash. It's literally the bare minimum you should be doing if you're storing user credentials. But here's the thing—if someone's complaining they "can't identify" what they're looking at, your security probably has bigger problems than whether you remembered to salt.

The "Privacy Diner" is serving up cryptographic puns with a side of existential dread about how your data is actually being handled. Spoiler: it's probably not as secure as you think.

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