Stitcher (the podcast app) actually stores passwords <i>in plaintext.</i><p>They have had millions of dollars and a number of years to fix this, but their leadership refused to prioritize the day or so of work it would take to implement the most basic protections for the users who trust them.<p>I just want this to be well-enough known that they get the shame they have chosen for themselves, so that future companies think twice before acting so callously.<p>-- anonymous
You would be surprise how many services/website store passwords in plaintext. Here is a none exhaustive shame-list: <a href="http://plaintextoffenders.com" rel="nofollow">http://plaintextoffenders.com</a><p><a href="http://www.scholarvox.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.scholarvox.com</a> used by many many schools/universities in France(Europe ?) are also storing plaintext passwords and the worse is that they store the passwords provided by the universities, the exact same one used by the students to connect to their intranet/emails/...