> Storing passwords unhashed may 'get the job done', but every programmer should know better. Not every programmer has to deal with passwords, though, so the g

> Storing passwords unhashed may 'get the job done', but every programmer should know better. Not every programmer has to deal with passwords, though, so the generality is it is limited. A programmer who has spent his whole career writing computational fluid dynamics simulations doesn’t need to know anything about storing passwords, but probably would have an equally idiosyncratic idea of what all programmers should know.