Posts by Alan

why are the passwords available anyway?

okay, I must be missing a step here.

why on earth was Fasthosts storing passwords in a clear text format in the first place?

we run a rather large blogging community, and even if our system was hacked, the list of passwords would be completely useless to them. our passwords are stored using a special encryption.

where they using the standard linux "passwd" mechanism to store the passwords?

i think more questions need to be asked in how the passwords where being stored.

Read the Article

@ By Sir Runcible Spoon

No assumption required, read the article and it clearly states, the "Blogger" service, which is owned and operated by Google.

Although interesting case this; because as a hoster of blogs ourselves, we do not keep the access logs for more than a few days.