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by omervk 12y ago
Yes, that's in the FAQ too.
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by omervk 12y ago
Thanks, I've added that to the FAQ. :)
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by omervk 12y ago
Wow, thanks for all of your points and suggestions! Unfortunately, I'll only be able to attend to them in an hour or so, so please bear with me and I promise personal attention to each any every point made here.
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by omervk 12y ago
Clickable links: [1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/ [2] http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs [3] http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/non-devs
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But why can't I send people their passwords?
201 points by omervk 12y ago|174 comments
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by omervk 12y ago
If anyone can gather this sort of information, we'll gladly publish it :)
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by omervk 12y ago
One more very important thing that I neglected to mention is how you can help: - Submit offenders - Spread the word (we're also on Facebook and Twitter (@plntxtoffenders) - Contact offending sites and let them know they're on the
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by omervk 12y ago
How would one gather that information? What form of evidence would you accept? We'd like to refrain from asking people to hack into sites just to figure out their hashing scheme :)
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by omervk 12y ago
That sounds lovely! Can you help us either in making it or recommending someone who might be able to?
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by omervk 12y ago
We've covered length limits before (and entered it into our mandate), since those limits are many times created by placing the password into a fixed-width field in the database.
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by omervk 12y ago
We have a few of those :)
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by omervk 12y ago
99.99% of people won't do that. We're trying to make the Internet safer for them.
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by omervk 12y ago
Yes, this is also explained in a link from our About page here: http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/7006690494/whats-so-wrong... TL;DR - it's still a security issue (albeit smaller), we've included it in
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by omervk 12y ago
Hey guys, I'm @omervk, one of the co-founders and the maintainer of PTO. Always a pleasure to be featured on the front page of HN. You're welcome to ask me questions, though we've covered most on our about page ( http:/&
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by omervk 12y ago
Unfortunately, since Tumblr's search is completely broken, I would recommend searching for the domain name on Google with the modifier "site:plaintextoffenders.com". For instance, to search for the site something.com, google
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by omervk 12y ago
I'm one of the founders of plaintextoffenders.com and just came in to point that out myself. So happy you beat me to it ;)
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by omervk 12y ago
Cute service, but if the name's not a joke, then it's pretty unfortunate :)
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by omervk 13y ago
Open floor plans mean that there are no rooms, only one big one (with half-height barriers if you're especially lucky) . Meeting rooms and rooms for management are usually not part of this arrangement, because, you know, management h
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by omervk 13y ago
Thirded. I'm from Israel and would love to watch this online.
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by omervk 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
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by omervk 13y ago
AppMyDay ( http://appmyday.co.il ). We make people happy. Tel Aviv, Israel Full time, permanent, local only at this point Recently seed funded, looking for first employees Who we're looking for: We're looking for a senio
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by omervk 13y ago
We celebrate it monthly :) https://twitter.com/plntxtoffenders/status/34073025293647872...
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by omervk 13y ago
AppMyDay ( http://appmyday.co.il ) Tel Aviv, Israel Full time, permanent, local only at this point Recently seed funded, looking for first employees Who we're looking for: We're looking for senior mobile engineers (iOS&#
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Plain-Text Offenders "Celebrates" 1500 Offenders; Asks For Your Help
15 points by omervk 13y ago|2 comments
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by omervk 13y ago
AppMyDay ( http://appmyday.co.il ) Tel Aviv, Israel Full time, permanent, local only at this point Recently seed funded, looking for first employees Who we're looking for: We're looking for senior mobile engineers (iOS/Android) and a team l
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by omervk 13y ago
Heya, co-founder of plaintextoffenders.com here. Just to note - we have talked about it before here: http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/7006690494/whats-so-wrong...
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by omervk 13y ago
(2010)
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by omervk 14y ago
The fact that iA have decided not to release a version of iA Writer for the web says something about this product.
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by omervk 14y ago
If it is available in some point in the future, would it be available for free to those who have already purchased the PDF version?
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by omervk 14y ago
Is there going to also be a Kindle (or any other e-Reader) version?

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