Common mistake for amateurs that found a password library and used it without reading the documentation. E. g. bcrypt will tell you to salt and hash the password before digesting it into constant length output for your database.

Salting before doing anything else is basic password security. I assume the webpage in question doesn’t do that, either.

Again, I’m aware of the state of things. This was about “a republic is not a democracy” idiots.

As you’ll see if you actually read my comment, it’s about idiots arguing a republic is not a democracy. I’m very much aware of the state of things.

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic because of the state of things or if you’re one of those “the US is a republic” people, but

In fact, a constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy, not a direct democracy.

• https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic

Yes it is.

I mean it even touts itself as one of the best democracies in the world. That’s like 80% of their war propaganda.