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IMO storing this kind of information in plain text was never acceptable. It requires the right combination of arrogance and incompetence for this to happen.
by coenhyde 16y ago
IMO storing this kind of information in plain text was never acceptable. It requires the right combination of arrogance and incompetence for this to happen.
- mgkimsal 16y agoIn some ways it's no wonder POF was able to bootstrap and run this amazingly large system all written by one guy with limited hardware. Dunno what their stats (or headcount) are now, but years ago POF was heralded as some genius site because it was all put together by one guy and running on a few load balanced servers. I'm not saying it takes multiple people to make something secure, but if one person either doesn't have the experience or knowledge to make something secure, and there's only that one person, there's no one else to even determine there's a problem.