
Second, anyone with access to your databases – and this is probably many people, if you’re using a shared host solution – can simply read the passwords straight from your tables. First, anyone with the most basic network sniffer can watch your web packets whizz by along with user passwords as needed. If you’re storing your passwords in plain text, you’ve got several big problems to overcome. Most of you – we hope – won’t be working in such life-and-death situations, but we all know that securing your customer data is the number one priority of any online business.

Found guilty of treason, Mary was sentenced to death, and her 14 co-conspirators were hanged, drawn and quartered.

Unfortunately for Mary, Sir Francis Walsingham – Elizabeth’s spymaster – intercepted each barrel, extracted the letter, decoded it, and replaced it so the conspirators were unaware of his intrusion.
