[aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Chris Owen wrote:

> Actually the "winning" 100 got a nagging email from us asking them to use
> the user interface to change their password (even if they "changed" it to
> what it was before) so we could capture it in plain text.  Not exactly the
> positive reinforcement you were looking for but we didn't have a lot of
> other choices at the point.

I'm a bit confused... passwords get encrypted for a reason.  Why did you
need to store them in plain text?

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Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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