Missing Guides

[quote=Matt]Sorry for the lack of follow ups, obviously we've been quite busy sorting this out. However I wanted to chime in to explain how our passwords are stored on our server so you guys know. We do not actually store your passwords. When you set your password, before we do anything we immediately apply what is called a salt to it, then we hash that using a strong algorithm, but we repeat it many many times over, this is called stretching. The salt is to counter dictionary attacks, because you'd need to generate a new dictionary to account for the salt and every single one of you has a unique random salt on your password. The stretching also makes dictionary attacks exponentially slower by requiring hashes to be run many times over for each attempt. Say you're an attacker and you got a hold of someone's hashed password. You need to rehash every single password in your dictionary to include the unique salt for that password. If you have to run a complex hash on tens or hundreds of thousands of potential passwords to account for that salt, that's gonna take time. If you then also have to run that hash dozens of times for each and every possible password, it's going to take exponentially longer, even just for one password. Hope that makes sense. Even if someone did somehow see your hashed password, it would be pretty useless to them.[/quote]

[quote=Stoudamire]do we have to change our passwords? /edit: oh i understood. good luck and i'll wait patiently.[/quote]

[quote=Matt]It never hurts to be cautious, but your passwords should be safe. If you currently use the same password for multiple things though, this might be a good time to adopt some better practices :)[/quote]

[quote=Stoudamire]awesome. thanks[/quote]

[quote=Janitsu]Why is Matt no longer admin? Why is he user???[/quote]

[quote=Latest Legend]Good to know, thanks for the info. Sounds like your security practices are solid, that's great. I think your follow ups are surprisingly fast and useful, no need to be sorry. Dropbox recently somewhat said they were hacked without any real useful info and it actually happened 4 years ago. [quote=Janitsu]Why is Matt no longer admin? Why is he user???[/quote]THE HACKERS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL. I REPEAT. :^)[/quote]

[quote=Matt]I demoted myself temporarily as a precautionary measure :)[/quote]

[quote=TheSilverDust]Let us guess whose admin account was hacked. I think that Wayne's account was the one.[/quote]

[quote=Aizenvolt]As for the guides that got deleted do you need us to send you the name of the guide to help you find whats missing or there is no problem with finding the guides that got deleted.[/quote]

[quote=Matt]We'll be able to figure it out, no worries. Keep an eye on this thread though, and once we post here saying things are settled, if you still see any missing content then let us know right away.[/quote]