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Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?


From: Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:22:46 +0300

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 3:06 AM William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

Risk is threat times vulnerability times impact. No impact, no risk. For
example, if the credentials for my grocery store loyalty card are
compromised, I do not actually care. It has no impact.


A fun fact: my employer has a product which basically does brute force
protection for web forms. One of, if not the, biggest customers for that
product is a grocery store chain, and exactly with their loyalty card
portal.

Sometimes, the impact or the absence thereof is a matter of perception.

--
Töma



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