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The Perils of Passwords in Plain Text…

Posted by: sarah on: June 2, 2011

While talking with friends, I recently learned of some passwords being accessible in plain text in one of the applications that many of us have used at one point or another. As time goes on and we have more and more hacked accounts and security breaches, I would hope that administrators and developers would grow [...]


Question of the Moment

Who should see passwords in plain text?

  • No one (100%, 9 Votes)
  • Other - someone should see them, but not the above group. (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Users (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Administrators (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 9

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