Don't Miss! #13
😲 Most People Don’t Know You Can Log In by Copying a Password Hash 🔐 (And Why It’s NOT a Bug)
😲 Most people don’t even know this is possible: if you have admin or database access, you can copy your own hashed password, paste it into another user’s record, and then log in as that user using your password. At first glance, this feels like a serious security flaw 🚨, but it isn’t. Modern authentication systems never store or decrypt passwords 🔐—they store one-way hashes and verify login attempts by comparing hashes. When you replace someone else’s hash with yours, you’re not discovering their password; you’re simply replacing their password with yours 💡. Hashing is intentionally irreversible, which is why frameworks like Django cannot recover passwords and instead rely on secure comparison. Understanding this clears up a very common misconception about password security 🧠 and shows why hashing, when used correctly, is still the safest and most trusted approach in modern applications ✅.
Security
Password
Hashing