Passwords are stored in plain text

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. "Passwords are stored in plain text."
Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman, 2015/02/10
A nice explanation of password hashing and salting, and a rather interesting set of responses from various academic services about the manner in which they store their passwords (or entrust third party services to manage them as GET requests, storing them in access logs for later retrieval and reuse). More...