die Seilerwerks

21:20:07 up 46 days, 21:24,  1 user,  load average: 153.21, 1019.09, 41.21

Yeah. 1019.

Seen on one of our ISP servers during a recent attempted brute-force password attack.

There is never, NEVER, N E V E R a reason to store passwords as clear text in a database. No matter how convenient it is for your own personal preference.

Any aspiring application developers reading this: NEVER. Salt-n-hash is such an easy thing to do in most any language now, and you won’t be publicly ridiculed like spez is now.