'Big Honking Security Hole' or something else?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 18:40:23 UTC 2010
> @All DO NOT DO THAT, EVER!
>
> I am not sure the author wrote this out of sheer malice, or ignorance,
> or as a prank.
>
As a demonstration of what happens to plain text passwords.
Now that the issue is being taken seriously, where is the offending
file? No matter how much blame-shifting we do, the fact remains that
this is a serious security issue and it's time to fix it.
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Dotan Cohen
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