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Discussion on: What are the worst security practices you've ever witnessed?

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Devin W. Leaman

A previous employer didn't properly encrypt user passwords (I left a couple years ago). Admins could view user passwords in plain text, modify them, whatever they wanted. And when I brought it up, I was told the user shouldn't expect their password to be safe and it's on them 🤦🏻‍♂️