On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This is an additional risk that is not alternative to the other. Thus, we
> have to deal with both.


Right, but I think the pendulum has swung far enough on the "secure
password storage" side while it has barely moved on the "social engineering
break in" aspect. If you're worried about the safety of your private
information, I think your time will be better spent making sure that the
companies you entrust have safe "reset" procedures than asking to see the
source code of their encryption back end.

Wired published a very enlightening article on this very
topic<http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/>last
month, I highly recommend it.

-- 
Cedric

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