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This is a false equivalency. There are numerous, perfectly good reasons why you should store hashed passwords in a database. Frisking Grandma is another story.
by swalkergibson 13y ago
This is a false equivalency. There are numerous, perfectly good reasons why you should store hashed passwords in a database.
Frisking Grandma is another story. Air marshals, metal detectors, and reinforced cockpit doors should be sufficient to halt the vast majority of terrorist attacks. As with any system, a determined adversary will absolutely get in. That is what makes the TSA theater.
- aroman 13y ago> This is a false equivalency. There are numerous, perfectly good reasons why you should store hashed passwords in a database. That is precisely his point. The TSA is in place not only to stop terrorist attacks (this is the false equivalency the article's author relied on), but ALSO to defend against a myriad of security risks, one of which happens to be "Terrorism".
- swalkergibson 13y agoI think that I must have misused false equivalency. My driving point is that implementing a hashing mechanism is in no way the same as TSA security theater, in theory or in practice. For instance, if 5 oz of liquid is dangerous on an airplane, why is it not dangerous in the trash can next to the security line?
- vidarh 13y agoAnd security only stops the 5oz+ liquids that people willingly disclose, or in the rare case they catch it in your bags. I regularly find I've forgotten to take out 0.5l (17oz) bottles from the bags I've passed through the x-ray machine. Nobody has ever caught it. They did, however, catch the circuitry of the blinking lights in my 4 year olds old shoes, which caused nervous looks for a few moments until one of the screeners who knew what they are looked over at the screens.