Moral of the story: don’t trust cartoon characters with black hats, or their websites!
I confess to having also thought of this before. More than once. Usually when some piece of software yells at me for not including at least 10 upper case, lower case, numeric and special characters in my password and is not a duplicate of the last 27 times it made me change password…
me to:)
What about opening up my WiFi and adding all my _users_ to the “I like using someone else’s open wireless network” facebook group via injecting proxy.
I haven’t implemented this yet because of the whole evilness thing.
@hairmare, @Dave: By default, WordPress stores a hash of a user’s password. However, it would be a scarily simple plugin to alter it to store the passwords in plaintext. I actually have a website with a large number of free users and the shadow of this thought has darkened my mind on more than one occasion.
Moral of the story: don’t trust cartoon characters with black hats, or their websites!
I confess to having also thought of this before. More than once. Usually when some piece of software yells at me for not including at least 10 upper case, lower case, numeric and special characters in my password and is not a duplicate of the last 27 times it made me change password…
me to:)
What about opening up my WiFi and adding all my _users_ to the “I like using someone else’s open wireless network” facebook group via injecting proxy.
I haven’t implemented this yet because of the whole evilness thing.
@hairmare, @Dave: By default, WordPress stores a hash of a user’s password. However, it would be a scarily simple plugin to alter it to store the passwords in plaintext. I actually have a website with a large number of free users and the shadow of this thought has darkened my mind on more than one occasion.
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