Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017

Re:Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017 by dhogan on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:26AM (#13088725)

I got my password emailed to me in plain text the other day. So that's still a thing.

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Re:Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017 by gt565k on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:32AM (#13089959)

What app / site did that? Please do share.

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Re:Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017 by jetti on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:13PM (#13090878)

Family Tree DNA did this at one point. Not only that but they took any password and converted it to uppercase. So aHa is the same as AHa and AHA, etc. I was less than ecstatic when I found that out

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