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Our hero returns home £500 richer thanks to senior dev's appalling security hygiene

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Re: Ahhh passwords...

If you want to be scared, try lots of online banking where they ask for specific numbered characters from your PIN and password

e.g. digits 1 and 3 of PIN, characters 3, 6 and 7 of password

Which, would either mean plain text password storage

Or (not much better) password is encrypted but in a format that can be easily decrypted to some degree (and so IMHO just security theatre, )

Which is why other half does online banking and I avoid it.

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