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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: 4, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Monday April 09 2018, @09:53AM (1 child)

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Monday April 09 2018, @09:53AM (#664325)

    THEN send them to jail, so they get out penniless and have to experience life as working-poor.

    Save the taxpayers the expense of jail, just take away their assets and force them to live on minimum wage for ten years or so...

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:25AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:25AM (#664804) Journal

    I like your thinking and wish to subscribe to your RSS feed :)

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