Among the examples cited was the Sony entertainment breach, whose causes included a negligent security officer keeping passwords in a plain text file on his des

Among the examples cited was the Sony entertainment breach, whose causes included a negligent security officer keeping passwords in a plain text file on his desktop. It's not clear what better coding practices could have done to improve that (or anything else at Sony entertainment, where the breached systems were mostly running commodity software). Ref: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/sony/11274727/Sony-saved-thousands-of-passwords-in-a-folder-named-Password.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/sony/11274727/Sony-sav...