That's a very ignorant statement. Linux, and many web sites such as the one I administer, encrypt password using a one-way hash, so they cannot be decrypted. When a user tries to authenticate, you encrypt their input'ed password and see if that matches the encrypted password in the database, or in/etc/passwd (such as Linux does).. This way you cannot decrypt the passwords, and yet you can still use them for authentication.
Elliot elliot@bha.udel.edu
That's absurd. If these users just downloaded one file, why wouldn't they download the remainder of the album? Especially with a band as popular as Metallica, it would not take long to find all tracks from a particular album.
What makes you think that after downloading one file, they'll buy the rest? That's quite optmistic of you.
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That's a very ignorant statement. Linux, and many web sites such as the one I administer, encrypt password using a one-way hash, so they cannot be decrypted. When a user tries to authenticate, you encrypt their input'ed password and see if that matches the encrypted password in the database, or in /etc/passwd (such as Linux does).. This way you cannot decrypt the passwords, and yet you can still use them for authentication.
Elliot elliot@bha.udel.edu
That's absurd. If these users just downloaded one file, why wouldn't they download the remainder of the album? Especially with a band as popular as Metallica, it would not take long to find all tracks from a particular album.
What makes you think that after downloading one file, they'll buy the rest? That's quite optmistic of you.