Reading some of the comments, it would seem that incompetent dipshits were running their back end infrastructure. Plain text passwords? I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
This makes me incandescently mad.
A site like Post Millennial, posting what they post, and with Andy freaking Ngo working there, someone who drives the tr00ns crazy, needs to have their security ON FUCKING POINT.
If the staff there can't or won't understand the skill level of the people who are after them, they need to just quit. /rant
lol this is exactly why I always use throwaway passwords and names for any social media and miscellaneous. Don't care what these companies have to say about their security, I'm lying my arse off on the forms unless it's for something financial related, they don't need any of that information.
I've made throwaway programs that communicate with local servers I create as a way to pass the time and even then I make sure to hash passwords at the very least. There's zero excuse to store passwords in plain text. None. Even a boomer should know better because hashing has been standard practice for decades.
All instances of plain text passwords should be considered sabotage until proven otherwise.
I would, actually, which was the point of the last sentence of my post. Tr00ns have some serious skilled IT people in their ranks, and you can not half ass security when that is your opposition, they will own you.
There are some with skill, but in my experience the troons know more than the average, but that's only because of tribal knowledge and autistic documentation. Troons excel at finding the gaps in people more than in logic. And thus the actual security autists are easily troon manipulated. Even autists like to hear that the problem is the world not them.
Reading some of the comments, it would seem that incompetent dipshits were running their back end infrastructure. Plain text passwords? I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
This makes me incandescently mad.
A site like Post Millennial, posting what they post, and with Andy freaking Ngo working there, someone who drives the tr00ns crazy, needs to have their security ON FUCKING POINT.
If the staff there can't or won't understand the skill level of the people who are after them, they need to just quit. /rant
Looks like no one learned anything from the Sony hack. All the customer info was stored the same way. In plain old unencrypted text files.
lol this is exactly why I always use throwaway passwords and names for any social media and miscellaneous. Don't care what these companies have to say about their security, I'm lying my arse off on the forms unless it's for something financial related, they don't need any of that information.
Never trust even the big tech companies.
The “trust and safety” teams have caused more pain and suffering than before they existed.
See : Saudi Arabia bribing twitter trust and safety team and then torturing anyone who posts info critical of them.
I hope they don't take physical safety as lightly
I've made throwaway programs that communicate with local servers I create as a way to pass the time and even then I make sure to hash passwords at the very least. There's zero excuse to store passwords in plain text. None. Even a boomer should know better because hashing has been standard practice for decades.
All instances of plain text passwords should be considered sabotage until proven otherwise.
That's a good point. They should look into their contractors or whoever actually did the work.
You won't believe the number of troons and troonlickers in cybersecurity.
I would, actually, which was the point of the last sentence of my post. Tr00ns have some serious skilled IT people in their ranks, and you can not half ass security when that is your opposition, they will own you.
There are some with skill, but in my experience the troons know more than the average, but that's only because of tribal knowledge and autistic documentation. Troons excel at finding the gaps in people more than in logic. And thus the actual security autists are easily troon manipulated. Even autists like to hear that the problem is the world not them.