I know everything you do and say is public and i don’t care .
What i am talking avout is the metadata like logs and ip and also passwds in case of an instance getting hacked do the hackers get these things . Like the user 123’s ip is this and passwds are this .
Like are they protected or encrypted so the hackers can’t use them ? Also what is stoping the instance owners from abusing or selling these behind our back ? or running a modded version of lemmy are they detectable ?
Why is everyone saying passwords are encrypted? I thought they were hashed?
Hashing is one-way encryption. So, while you’re techcnically correct that they’re not encrypted in the traditional sense (encryption is reversible), for many it’s easier to understand the concept of encryption instead of hashing and terms are often used interchangeable.