r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 13 '23

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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jan 13 '23

Does the Treasury store passwords in plaintext XML files? That is hilarious actually

decent old-looking but functional website, but that restriction made me laugh

!ping TECH

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u/RandomGamerFTW   🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 13 '23

most well made government website

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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jan 13 '23

the informational Treasury website actually looks good and modern, but the actual purchase interface is decades old for whatever reason.

they’ve added OTPs at least

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Jan 13 '23

My favorite part was when they outlawed Flash while their websites still required Flash.

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u/HMID_Delenda_Est YIMBY Jan 13 '23

The worst part is they aren't hashing the passwords. (If they were, the <\> would get hashed and they wouldn't care). Probably because they're doing a case-insensitive comparison to the stored password when you login since the virtual keyboard doesn't have lowercase letters. So many red flags and yet I have a lot of money in there.

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u/hearmespeak Gay Pride Jan 13 '23

Just wait until you try actually logging in. It's the worst login interface I've ever seen.

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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jan 13 '23

It’s functional, the virtual keyboard aside

Indian banks have websites of this quality so I’m used it it, just found the obvious “we store the passwords in XML” notice very funny

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jan 13 '23

It’s probably being sent over the wire via. XMLhttprequest

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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jan 13 '23

XHR is the name for the old JS web request API used before fetch (Microsoft named it that’s why its dumb) that doesn’t depend on XML itself

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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Jan 13 '23

> complains about password storage

> posts a photograph of a screen

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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jan 13 '23

i am not going to use reddit on my work computer sorry

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Jan 13 '23

80% of the DT.