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While I'm mostly for the name-and-shame approach to lazy security practices, these "x stores passwords in plaintext" have become just as lazy. It's just an excu
by paulgb 14y ago
While I'm mostly for the name-and-shame approach to lazy security practices, these "x stores passwords in plaintext" have become just as lazy. It's just an excuse for developers to feel better about themselves because they know about hashing passwords. Case in point, this article suggests Samsung should hash the passwords, which wouldn't work here. I suppose it does good to bring Samsung's oversight to light, but the reader gets nothing from the article.