It's a wonder that things like PGP/GnuPG haven't gained wider adoption
amongst the typical public with things like this happening. It stinks for
more reasons than just the security aspects. Big Brother.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12983734
>
> The Frenchies want to force all websites to store passwords in plaintext.
> With
> all the data breaches going on, can't they figure out that having
> everyone's
> plaintext passwords stolen is a lot worse than having hashed credentials
> snatched?
>
> Stupid, stupid, stupid.
>
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