On 08/01/2019 21:37, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
There is a special place in hell for spammers. There is an even more special place lower in hell for web site builders that store plain-text passwords rather than a one-way salted hash of a password.
Oh, there's a worse hell -- I hope -- for the sort of Unix sysadmin (I won't mention Aaron's name ;-)) put in charge of a sizeable HPC cluster, decided to password protect it to ensure only a certain set of users would have access, somehow copied the passwords they used on the main system, and stored them in plain text on a related machine for his access control.
He no longer works for the enterprise in question. -- Pete Pete Turnbull
