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ams6110
on Feb 4, 2011
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Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text
Even if you read email over SSL, it's likely not transported that way.
InclinedPlane
on Feb 4, 2011
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Sniffing traffic on the internet backbone is orders of magnitude more difficult than sniffing traffic on an open access point. Even if you
could
do it, making it practical is a terrific challenge of scale.
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