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2013-07-26 -Land of the Free

Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords

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Posted by Fred 2013-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Hallo I am calling from the govermet we know what you thnk, and we approve.

(Mis-speinngs intentional, speaking in a thick accent, probably Indian)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-26 01:05|| 2013-07-26 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-26 01:10|| 2013-07-26 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 legal requests

Warrants? They have to be filed someplace. As much as the bureaucrats, to include LE, may like to say 'such and such a law' gives me authority, if it's not Constitutional, it's not legit. The problem is latter when they try the old "I was just obeying orders" defense. It'll mean something when they're caught up to later and their pension disappears. Particularly middle managers who don't have 'friends' to take care of them in their old age.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-07-26 08:11|| 2013-07-26 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 P2k, Warrants?? We don't need no steenking warrants!!

Due to the current level of my cynicism I am not surprised by this. I do think that we are getting closer to the point where the liberty tree will get watered.

Posted by AlanC 2013-07-26 08:28|| 2013-07-26 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I recursively hash the password many times.

I have NO CLUE what my users passwords are.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174415.aspx

I've seen one company (spideroak) hash on the browser using JS, so it's never transmitted, v clever.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-26 08:58|| 2013-07-26 08:58|| Front Page Top

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