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in reply to Status of Recent User Information Leak

It's seems that everyone is bragging about plaintext passwords, at the same time forgetting about compromised root account on the server involved. Also, about 90% of the posters are happy to declare perlmonks maintainers as stupid and careless because of that. So, I have one question: give me one good logical reason to have encrypted passwords on the user login machine I and not you have the root access for.