Comments on: Gawker Considered Stupid – Criminally Stupid http://marknelson.us/2011/02/06/gawker-considered-stupid-criminally-stupid/ Programming, mostly. Wed, 16 May 2012 08:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Nelson http://marknelson.us/2011/02/06/gawker-considered-stupid-criminally-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-464698 Mark Nelson Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:42:37 +0000 http://marknelson.us/?p=266#comment-464698 I have emails from Dreamhost arguing about this point in 2007. The basically told me to buzz off. - Mark I have emails from Dreamhost arguing about this point in 2007. The basically told me to buzz off.

- Mark

]]> By: Nick P http://marknelson.us/2011/02/06/gawker-considered-stupid-criminally-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-464689 Nick P Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:13:39 +0000 http://marknelson.us/?p=266#comment-464689 "But the truth is, when it comes to security, the average IT person is an idiot, and the average user is an idiot. Just for example, my hosting service, Dreamhost.com, stores user passwords in their database. I’ve argued with them to no end about how stupid this is. But they’re content – the passwords are encrypted, and hardly anyone has access to them. They’ll happily go on in this mode until a disgruntled employee mails out the list, or the inevitable security breach leads to a mini-Gawker episode." It took just 11 months for this to come true. This practice annoys me to no end. “But the truth is, when it comes to security, the average IT person is an idiot, and the average user is an idiot. Just for example, my hosting service, Dreamhost.com, stores user passwords in their database. I’ve argued with them to no end about how stupid this is. But they’re content – the passwords are encrypted, and hardly anyone has access to them. They’ll happily go on in this mode until a disgruntled employee mails out the list, or the inevitable security breach leads to a mini-Gawker episode.”

It took just 11 months for this to come true. This practice annoys me to no end.

]]> By: seanism http://marknelson.us/2011/02/06/gawker-considered-stupid-criminally-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-361527 seanism Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:31:29 +0000 http://marknelson.us/?p=266#comment-361527 I am one of those average idiot IT guys and enjoyed the read. I am one of those average idiot IT guys and enjoyed the read.

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