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Comment Re:In the US? (Score 1) 45

Not guaranteed, just orders of magnitude more reliable in places with shoddy mobile phone reception.

I'm in Japan and carried a pager until about 10 years ago when the major carrier shut down their service. Within the first month our on-call people missed multiple pages due to signal-related issues.

Comment Re:"AT LEAST" part... (Score 1) 71

For certain types of authentication you do need to store plaintext passwords - the traditional two types of logins used for dialups/pppoe are PAP and CHAP. PAP allows you to have password hashes on the auth server but transmits plaintext on the wire/air. Conversely CHAP hashes on the wire/air but requires the plaintext password to be available on the auth server due to the nature of the protocol. You choose your points of vulnerability.

Comment Re:Are there alternatives? (Score 1) 700

There are dozens of alternative chips that can be used:

Prolific (have had their own driver sabotage issues in the past and even the genuine ones are kind of crappy)
Silicon Labs
WinChipHead (I have these on my Arduino-compatibles, seem to work OK)
More chips than I can rattle off from Microchip and Atmel
And a bunch of others.

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