Engineering in the white spaces
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Demonstrating the password utilities library
Before demonstrating the new password utilities library, we interrupt our scheduled programming to bring you the latest offender in end-user personal data storage. Sony's Playstation Network and Qriocity services have recently suffered a major intrusion that exposed personal data for its 77 million users. It's not completely clear from their FAQs, but it appears that the user passwords weren't hashed or encrypted, but instead stored in plain text. This makes the Sony rootkit fiasco positively tame in comparison. Read more
03-May-2011 23:55
