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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   
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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• Re:When it's fraud(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @02:01PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 09 2018, @02:01PM (#664412) Homepage Journal

  I used to think that too. It doesn't hold water if you understand that any power the government has, it stole from its people though.

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