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Plaintext can mean a few things - encrypted in transit using an HTTPS connection means it's no longer plaintext.
by sofixa 2y ago
Plaintext can mean a few things - encrypted in transit using an HTTPS connection means it's no longer plaintext.
- abadpoli 2y agoThe article and source material are light on details here. My guess is that it is using HTTPS, but the researchers saw the plaintext password in the request and assumed “password in plaintext always bad”. If the app isn’t using HTTPS, then the story would be much bigger than just the password being plaintext.