> Sigh. They appear to have confused hashing with asterisks.
No they didn't. Or else the excerpt you quoted would have said literally that, i.e.
> The glitch was related to Twitter’s use of a technology known as “hashing” that masks passwords as a user enters them by replacing them with asterisks.
While the description of "hashing" is tortured, it seems to be technically correct, if you don't make specific assumptions about the phrase "that masks passwords as a user enters them by replacing them". But yes, the normal interpretation of the present tense would be that the characters are being hashed as the user types in the password, rather than after the form submission.
No they didn't. Or else the excerpt you quoted would have said literally that, i.e.
> The glitch was related to Twitter’s use of a technology known as “hashing” that masks passwords as a user enters them by replacing them with asterisks.
While the description of "hashing" is tortured, it seems to be technically correct, if you don't make specific assumptions about the phrase "that masks passwords as a user enters them by replacing them". But yes, the normal interpretation of the present tense would be that the characters are being hashed as the user types in the password, rather than after the form submission.