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What is fraudulent about that?
by lukevdp 8y ago
What is fraudulent about that?
- haskellandchill 8y agoPlain text passwords.
- sveng 8y agoPlain text passwords are a poor security practice, not fraud per se. There’s no sense it was intentional, nor that any customers were impacted. I used the Adobe example since 38 million customers had personal information exfiltrated in 2013 (including me). Adobe knew better (or should have). But that still is not fraud. They have enhanced their security practices since then, and I am still a customer of theirs.
- virgilp 8y agoFWIW, at that time Adobe was already properly handling the password - what leaked was an old backup. Where passwords were hashed, just not properly. Adobe did mess up on that one - it's just not on the same level, not even close. The main thing that makes it worse was that Adobe has a lot of customer data (likely unlike this guy, who probably didn't have many customers)
- ggg9990 8y agoI didn’t have any idea what I was doing. When my cofounder arrived and looked at the code base... he looked like he was going to puke. Took him less than 5 minutes to decide that there wasn’t even a line worth keeping.
- bigchewy 8y agoI don't think you understand the definition of the words that you are saying. Consider looking up the definition of e.g. fraud
- haskellandchill 8y agoI'm not bound by your rules, but thanks.
- 2stop 8y agoSo, if he had, say: one character passwords but they were hashed and salted instant success? Or can I call any system a fraud with a pithy one liner: Not air-gapped - fraud.