In a scathing rant posted to a GNU project mailing list
Where is this scathing rant? All I can find is a extremely polite, well written airing of grievance and resignation.
Microsoft could incur approximately $70,000 in power costs to avoid the $210,000 penalty, resulting in real savings of $140,000.
"Flamebait headline" is also correct.
which proves they have been storing it without hashing all along.
Or they are truncating it before hashing, which is s still a WTF.
There doesn't seem to be any compelling security reason to exclude certain characters from eligibility for use in a password.
I can't see any compelling reason to have any restrictions at all, other than to store people's passwords in plain text or some decryptable format.
From the hosts perspective, there should be no difference between an 8 character alpha-numeric password, a tab-delimmitted list of non-printable characters, and the entire japanese translation of War and Peace. They all hash to the same length.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees
Actually it is 14 cents.
Of course, the O-Bots are gonna crank both AC and me down into -5 land, as that's how they roll...
Hey dingbat, the only mention of politics in this entire thread comes from you and the AC above you, of course you should be modded down. This is as offtopic as it gets.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
