> It's the equivalent of sending an MD5 of your password somewhere; you may still object, but it is not factually correct to say your password was transmitted.
Hackers love to have MD5 checksums of passwords. They make it way easier to find the passwords in a brute force attack.
Nobody responding seriously to this because you seem to have missed the part where GP said "with noise added to make it irreversible" and the third sentence in that wikipedia article.
Hackers love to have MD5 checksums of passwords. They make it way easier to find the passwords in a brute force attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table