Newegg stores your password in plaintext

Re:Newegg stores your password in plaintext by sdkmvx on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @09:04PM (#2582441)

If a customer calls up wanting to know their password, I would bet that they are configuring a new modem and that's why the need it. If their modem knows the password, why do they need to know it?

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Re:Newegg stores your password in plaintext by trafficlight on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @09:17PM (#2582484)

Email, ftp access, ssh access. There are lots of other reasons for needing to know a password.

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Re:Newegg stores your password in plaintext by lurker19 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @02:10AM (#2583090)

I think elithrar was talking about the layer-2 modem password, not the layer-7 application user credentials.

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Re:Newegg stores your password in plaintext by rmc on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @05:05AM (#2583383)

What makes you think they are different?

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