This may be an over simplified question, but I recently have read a lot about hashing of passwords and it made me wonder. Since passwords are hashed, do most websites or any admins in general have no way to know what your password is even on their own system?
For example, I always used to think, you sign up for yahoo mail, the almighty admin guys know your password. If one of those guys was a crook, he could easily think "hey, this guy probably uses that password for everything, lets try his bank account". But now that I hear about password hashing I wonder if that is true, or if it all happens so securely even the admins can't find it out?
And if so, what about local networks? Can the IT guys at most companies see most employees passwords, or are they securely incrypted/hashed in such a way that the IT guys can't even know?
For example, I always used to think, you sign up for yahoo mail, the almighty admin guys know your password. If one of those guys was a crook, he could easily think "hey, this guy probably uses that password for everything, lets try his bank account". But now that I hear about password hashing I wonder if that is true, or if it all happens so securely even the admins can't find it out?
And if so, what about local networks? Can the IT guys at most companies see most employees passwords, or are they securely incrypted/hashed in such a way that the IT guys can't even know?