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You would be very surprised at the number of people in management positions at any size company that think this is OK. At the jobs (consulting and otherwise) I
by ary 15y ago
You would be very surprised at the number of people in management positions at any size company that think this is OK.
At the jobs (consulting and otherwise) I've held in the last few years 75% of the companies stored passwords in plaintext. I'm not justifying it in any way shape or form, but Sony shouldn't be singled out. Until there is an immediate and clear financial incentive to use proper security companies are going to continue to ignore it.
- 46Bit 15y agoI'd say that's neither surprising nor something to be annoyed about. It's the developers who should know better, and their responsibility alone to inform management about why.
- sixtofour 15y agoWorker: Boss, this is bad, we shouldn't do this. Boss: If we don't save passwords, how can we email passwords back when they forget them? Worker: . . . Boss: Don't change anything.
- ary 15y agosixtofour's response is dead on. No offense, but how many companies have you worked at? Developer's ideas (good and bad) get shot down all the time for incredibly trite and/or stupid reasons. Until the people in decision making positions take notice nothing is going to change.