New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why does Google thinks it's okay to store users plain text passwords?
Ask HN: Why does Google thinks it's okay to store users plain text passwords?
3 by FrenchDevRemote | 3 comments on Hacker News.
So I was just in the process of handling the aftermath of the theft of one of my relative's phone. Not a tech-savvy person, I'd say they're more or less as knowledgeable as the average Google user. When checking what could be blocked from their google account, I realized that 60 of their saved passwords/mails were available in plain text when connecting to their google account from a new laptop(with no other input than mail and password), it's even exportable to a nice csv. This apparently seems to be default behavior. Isn't that insane? Am I naive to just realize that this is apparently normal to have this kind of stupid design from a trillion dollar tech company? Is there any sane way of explaining why anyone could have thought that this was an acceptable idea?
3 by FrenchDevRemote | 3 comments on Hacker News.
So I was just in the process of handling the aftermath of the theft of one of my relative's phone. Not a tech-savvy person, I'd say they're more or less as knowledgeable as the average Google user. When checking what could be blocked from their google account, I realized that 60 of their saved passwords/mails were available in plain text when connecting to their google account from a new laptop(with no other input than mail and password), it's even exportable to a nice csv. This apparently seems to be default behavior. Isn't that insane? Am I naive to just realize that this is apparently normal to have this kind of stupid design from a trillion dollar tech company? Is there any sane way of explaining why anyone could have thought that this was an acceptable idea?
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