It was an encroachment born of failure in input/output sanitation, which is long and code intensively difficult in perl, especially in the epoch this site was developed. It was lack of development testing that assisted; and it was also due to failure to upgrade OpenSSL, Apache2 and it was failure to require users to rotate passwords. Blaming users for insecure passwords is silly and while it might work for the masses, frankly it's just as bad as the triangulation inherent in development of the Holy Trinity of Perl [v6] (which should have been implemented 10 years ago). On 7/31/09, Stephen wrote: > i dont think it was blaming the passwords as much as just making sure > you changed it after the fact... > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Lisa Kachold > wrote: >> Hmmm? >> >> Blaming this on simple passwords is irresponsible! >> >> On 7/30/09, Ben wrote: >>> You might want to change your password. >>> >>> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=784737 >>> http://perlbuzz.com/2009/07/perlmonks-users-your-passwords-have-been-published.html >>> >>> Ben >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> (623)239-3392 >> (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- (623)239-3392 (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss