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You're defending your post pretty strongly, and you can downvote me all you want, but you specifically said "That must mean that Newegg stores your passwords i
by latch 15y ago
You're defending your post pretty strongly, and you can downvote me all you want, but you specifically said
"That must mean that Newegg stores your passwords in the clear, as plaintex"
I didn't add the word must there.
- jerrya 15y agoI have not yet achieved or unlocked "downvote". :( I'm not sure I want to just get into rewriting a post, but I did update it to reference the discussion and I did mention the more correct (unlikely) theory that there is a two way encryption involved and everything is hunky-dory.
- kelnos 15y agoEven if there is 2-way encryption involved, I don't find that an acceptable means of password storage. If the original password is retrievable by anything other than painful (hopefully infeasible) brute-force means, it's bad.
- jerrya 15y agoI agree. Up above it was pointed out that it's bad because a) people use the same passwords across sites, and b) by not allowing peeking at a password, bad employees are forced to use mechanisms that are more likely to create audit trails, like mechanisms that change a password in the database.