[security flaw] Ubuntu is a plain text offender

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 05/23/11 17:14, Kent Borg wrote:
> Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>> Ubuntu should stop using an insecure version of Mailman. Now.
>
> I am never bothered when a mailing list sends me a plaintext password.
>
> But *I* do something Extremely Radical: I don't reuse passwords.

*snip*

Yes, *YOU* don't reuse passwords, and neither do I. But that is entirely 
beside the point.

This security flaw isn't about us two, it's about the 99.999% people out 
there who don't use a proper password policy. You simply cannot expect 
every Ubuntu user to be so careful.