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Re:Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext for us... by zyphlar on Monday July 04, 2011 @02:55PM (#2727437)
Generally it's pretty easy to get root on a system. Then you're generally 100% owned. The only away this will survive is on the good graces of malicious hackers everywhere.
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Re:Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext for us... by drivebyacct2 on Monday July 04, 2011 @05:21PM (#2727919)
>Generally it's pretty easy to get root on a system.

Number one, I'd love a citation on that in general. Root privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel are fairly rare.

Number two, how does an SQL injection turn into any sort of shell access magically? Not without some other obvious security shortcomings.

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