4 Aug
2018
4 Aug
'18
8:07 a.m.
On 2018-08-04 12:47 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I received a blackmail message by email. It claimed that they hacked my system and had compromising videos from my computer's camera.
As proof, they gave me what they claimed was my password. But I only used that password on two sites: canadacomputers.com and xpresscanada.com (a long-dead Canada Computers site).
Is it not terrible practise to store unencrypted passwords on a web site? -- Stephen