CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @08:49PM from the irony-at-its-best dept.

SpacemanukBEJY.53u writes: An article published by CNBC on Tuesday offered tips on how to create a secure password, complete with a form that tested submitted passwords. While well-intended, security experts said it exposed passwords to third-party advertisers. Also, the form created to test a password didn't use SSL/TLS, which meant someone on the same network could have sniffed it. Even worse, the tool claimed to not store the passwords, but an acute observer found they were actually being inputted into a Google Docs spreadsheet. CNBC quickly withdrew the article.

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Re:MSFT is Evil, but not for the reason you think. by Coisiche · 2016-03-29 21:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

If it hadn't been Microsoft then it would have been some other company that became dominant supplying operating systems to desktops. The move to smaller and more mobile computing would have happened regardless as the technology enabled it. Maybe a bit differently but still inevitably. And whatever company did gain the dominance on the desktop would have been unpopular too.