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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, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @09:26PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 09 2018, @09:26PM (#664688) Homepage Journal

    Sigh. You keep thinking of rights as positively existing entities. They are not any more than darkness or vacuum is. They are an abstract name for the the absence of someone else's will conflicting with your own. They need no grounding because they are not an affirmative thing.

    Any conscious being placed alone in an area has complete liberty (all possible rights) until another entity comes along and wishes their thoughts, speech, actions, etc... to be limited for some reason. Rights are defined when some measure of liberty is addressed that a desire to curtail it exists for. Then and only then can they potentially become the arbitrarily defined, limited subset of complete liberty that we call a "right" to be protected or surrendered.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:24AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:24AM (#664802) Journal

    Okay, NOW we're getting somewhere :) THAT is their ontological grounding. They are an epiphenomenon of who and what we as humans are, as well as our environment.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:11AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:11AM (#664823) Homepage Journal

      More a product of interaction with other sentient beings, I'd say. I mean you currently have the right to spontaneously turn bright purple if you so desire. It's just not something that's likely to come up so the right itself isn't going to have its boundaries precisely defined. Or it's like "how many possible arcs are there in a circle?". There are an infinite number that are going to undefined in any given circle simply because they're not currently relevant to anything.

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