[GTALUG] blackmail

[Stephen]

On 2018-08-04 12:47 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I received a blackmail message by email.  It claimed that they hacked my
> system and had compromising videos from my computer's camera.
> 
> As proof, they gave me what they claimed was my password.  But I only used
> that password on two sites: canadacomputers.com and
> xpresscanada.com (a long-dead Canada Computers site).

Is it not terrible practise to store unencrypted passwords on a web site?

-- 
Stephen