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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 Thexalon on Monday April 09 2018, @02:36PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday April 09 2018, @02:36PM (#664448)

    Ordering illegal acts is itself illegal and needs no further legislation. Ordering astoundingly foolish acts is not and should never be.

    And what Equifax did is not criminal, just astoundingly foolish and possibly a tort.

    And the point of the argument is that Equifax did a lot of damage to a lot of people, knowingly even by hiding the breach for months, and yet is totally fine as a business, thus demonstrating that civil penalties and company profits are insufficient to motivate companies to behave differently.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @04:13PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 09 2018, @04:13PM (#664521) Homepage Journal

    Then your obligation is to change the laws if you want to claim to be a civilized being. Illegal and immoral actions on your part cannot be justified by legal but immoral actions on their part if that's a mantle you wish to wear.

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