Biogy

There is an interesting investigation into an issue with a GoDaddy hosted website. The investigation touches on a number of different things but one of them is that GoDaddy stores passwords without hashing them.
I did my undergraduate computer science degree in the early 1970s and even then we were taught that passwords should always be hashed (we called them one-way-ciphers back then). Instead of comparing the actual password to whatever was typed, the typed password Read more…