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		larrik on March 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frustrated with iCloud, Apple’s developer communit... Normally it would to be prevent users from reusing their most recent N passwords, for security. I don't believe Apple does that anywhere, though.

vacri on March 29, 2013 | [–]

I suppose thinking about it, as long as they're hashed and salted, it's less of a problem... but it's still crazy that the system could fail that way.

erichocean on March 28, 2013 | [–]

I can confirm that they do.

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