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Devs... WTF?
You're embarrassing me in front of the security guys!
Researchers asked 43 freelance developers to code the user registration for a web app and assessed how they implemented password storage. 26 devs initially chose to leave passwords as plaintext.
https://twitter.com/PwdRsch/status/1103021803503607808
Those devs were then asked to rewrite their code to 'store passwords securely.' And 8 chose to use base64?!?!?!?