Thursday, May 24, 2012

Did you just email me back my own password?!

A while ago I wrote a blog post about what precautions to take handling password data on your website. plaintextoffenders.com is a website dedicated to this issue. It nicely points out why storing passwords in plaintext really is such a bad idea. The main part of the website is a pillory of submitted websites which obviously apply bad password practices. There's for awareness...

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