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At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 08 2018, @02:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the easier-to-check-that-way dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/04/another-day-another-breach-at-what-point-does-storing-passwords-in-plaintext-become-criminally-negligent/

The third largest breach ever just happened in Finland. Passwords were stored in plaintext. At T-Mobile Austria, they explain that of course they store the password in plaintext, but they have so good security so it's nothing to worry about. At what point does this become criminally negligent?

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 09 2018, @02:43AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 09 2018, @02:43AM (#664154) Journal

    You don't actually have anything you can argue against, is the problem: you have dogma. There is no more changing your mind than that of a fundamentalist Muslim, and for much the same reason: you, like the Abrahamic partisan, are an idolator and barely even half-understand what it is you say you believe. I've pointed out to you several times that you're making basically the same mistake as the anti-GPL proponents (the idea that the fewest rules up front necessarily and inevitably translates into maximum freedom at all times), and that this leads you into the moral equivalent of priority-inversion bugs, but to no avail.

    You seem to think "ha ha, you didn't change my mind" is the same as "i'm right and you're wrong."

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @02:53AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 09 2018, @02:53AM (#664158) Homepage Journal

    You seem to think "ha ha, you didn't change my mind" is the same as "i'm right and you're wrong."

    It pretty much is. Argument is how I either strengthen or change my positions. So far you've only helped to strengthen them by providing easily countered mental jetsam.

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