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Re^7: It's Time for Everyone to Change Passwords!by shmem (Chancellor) |
on Jul 30, 2009 at 09:41 UTC ( [id://784548]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
i think the hack was done just to prove the site is vulnerable. I agree, however hacking a site that never claimed not to be vulnerable is a bit... pointless. From Fausty's comment on wired:Yay, how brave and skillful to “hack” something that’s already public, provided for free, and supported by volunteers. "programmers passwords?" No, guys, just Monks passwords, for a site which runs http, that obviously stores passwords in plain text ("mail me my password"). Geez...
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