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> A company i worked for, had their MySql server unprotected on the internet for no reason at all. They still used MD5 too. Another company saved credit card information in their DB with a simple generic key in code accessable by everyone.

So your argument is that since we had incompetence before, let's have more of it?






I'm saying that this was already a issue before, its not a new issue and we have to deal with this the same way as we did before: Security experts, audits etc.



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