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The problem here is that a lot of newly minted IT professionals will write stuff that will allow a re-use of all those old exploits all over again. Occasionall
by tisme 14y ago
The problem here is that a lot of newly minted IT professionals will write stuff that will allow a re-use of all those old exploits all over again.
Occasionally warning people about known dangers doesn't harm. Sure that's not exactly moving the needle but it may help to mitigate a few lurking problems that people were not yet aware of.
Think of it as a 'wear your seatbelt' advertisement. If you're already wearing your seatbelt then it wasn't meant for you.
- ghshephard 14y agoEntirely appropriate. We've probably had a minimum of 20-30 reposts over the problems with saving passwords as simple salts+hashes, which is a useful introduction to bcrypt/scrypt/pbkdf2.