Reply to post: Re: Virgin, bringing you the barely-adequate security from 2002

Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy

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Re: Virgin, bringing you the barely-adequate security from 2002

That's easy.

* storing the passwords in 10 char field in the DB... in plaintext

* SQL looks something like "INSERT into users(user,password) values(${user},${password})" and don't want Bobby Tables breaking it

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