Arthur · 8 answers · 11mo

Just came across an internship agency that sends your account name and password in plain text through e-mail as a confirmation. What's your opinion on companies which disregard good security practices?

Probably lose a bit of respect for them. I have seen a lot of these companies where security is a joke to them. You usually have no choice but to deal with them.

There’s a lot of them about, sadly. You could have the best security in the world, but if idiots are bypassing it (like Sean’s example), it’s worthless. People are always the weakest link. They’re lazy. They’re complacent. They don’t think anything bad will happen to them. Hackers and scammers know this and companies like them are a godsend. I’d tell them. They probably don’t see anything wrong with what they’re doing.

I think they're very worrisome at best, infuriating at worst. I know that sometimes it's out of ignorance, but it can be very frustrating. Occasionally I have contacted companies like this and let them know that they've done something very risky security-wise.

I was thinking what Kate said. I wouldn't be worried so much about the security itself, since the level security one usually expects is on the super paranoid side, but it's a red flag that the company is pretty shoddy/unserious in general.

I would think that company isn't serious and that might be a sign of little competence and probably even lesser intelligence. They might do their business in a similarly non serious way which is a red flag.

Get used to it, I have been to DOD top secret research labs where people put their passwords on sticky notes under their keyboards

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