On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, April 28, 2011 11:24 am, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
>> One of my accounts a while back changed their password method--they
>> emailed me saying that to "increase security" they had stripped all
>> non-alphanumerics out of my password! That is disturbing on many
>> levels.
>
> Ouch. The most disturbing part for me is that it meant they weren't storing a 
> hash, but
> the actual password itself.

Yep.

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