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Another Sony hack yielded a database of 1,000,000 plaintext passwords.
Why does Sony have plaintext passwords? Because they're idiots and
deserve to suffer a civil lawsuit. But
Sony's negligence is security researchers' gain: check out this
analysis
of the
password haul. The most astonishing result:
Two thirds of people with accounts at both Sony and Gawker reused their passwords.Passwords are a broken mechanism of authentication. They are weak, dangerous, and difficult for naïve users to use correctly. It's time to end passwords. |
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