Re: Police secret password blunder

["Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>]

On 4/5/06, Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov> wrote:
> > Why stop there? It gets better if you are a little more patient:
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22View+TABLE%3A%22+ID+%22Full+Name%22+email+password+Organization+site%3Acustomscripts.police.nsw.gov.au&btnG=Search
> >
> > Hey, Nicole and Webb have the same password as me!
>
> I'm still wondering why the passwords were being stored as plain text.
> _______________________________________________

Its the last time they will buy software protection from Evil
Geniuses, Corp (we help the enemy more than you.)

More than likely, the had a page that autogenerated a list of
passwords (that way if you forget you can look it up again) and a
master list of them.


--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator

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