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Re:Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million pla... by ZoFreX on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @07:31AM (#6767611)
The spin in mainstream media always puts the blame squarely on the hackers, and in my anecdotal experience typical users have no interest in the argument that the companies that were hacked are to blame.
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Re:Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million pla... by alephnil on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @11:00AM (#6768764)
Because most people have not even thought of the possibility that password can be stored in anything but plaintext, and take it as granted that all websites do. Thus the websites can't possibly be blamed, and the hackers must be the bad guys.
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