WTF - how is anyone this lame?
Posted by Ian Holsman
can you guess the web service who was so stupid they stored the users password in plain text?
On a separate note, we want to make you aware that media of ours that contained a backup of a portion of the XXXXX database was stolen recently. Although the media did not contain any personally identifiable information about our users and we have no reason to believe that XXXX data was the target of the theft, we wanted to alert you to the possibility that your username, password, and – in some cases – e-mail address may have been compromised. If you use the user name and/or password for other purposes, we suggest that you change them in those other uses as soon as possible—just in case.
I guess the next stupidest thing is users like me who use the same password/logon details for free websites like this.
the sooner OpenID gets to be a household name the better.
aside: django automatically hashes the password and user creation so you don’t even have to think of it! (so the answer to this question is not a django application!)