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Comment So do Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Myspace, et al (Score 5, Informative) 535

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.html

The 2-year old article I linked also explains that all Google content reviewers are on one-year contract because of the nature of the work and have access to counseling. From TFA it seems many of these reviewers got the false impression that they would be hired fulltime after completing the one year. Considering that Google seem to have pretty tough hiring process, I'm not surprised that very few of these reviewers get hired fulltime. Their managers must be filthy liars though.

Comment This is for real (Score 5, Informative) 340

Real links here: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html
http://sea.battle.net/support/en/article/important-security-update-faq

The important thing to note is that the passwords were encrypted with Secure Remote Password protocol, meaning that Rainbow Tables are ineffective since each password is individually encrypted instead of using a common hash. Also, the process is CPU expensive so brute forcing is highly unfeasiable for reasonably length passwords.

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