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

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James Hickey

Another company I worked for was storing plain text passwords so that internal customer service reps could have a page that would allow them to log in and impersonate customers (to fix issues, etc.).

Oh ya, the password was passed - in plain text - in a query string as part of the link.

Good news is that it has since been fixed.

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