Who Could Have Predicted It

Passwords Plain-text authentication Bad practices Venting google Hashing

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Who Could Have Predicted It

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Storing passwords in plain text? That's not a security flaw, that's a cry for help. Someone out there built a website where you could log in as User A, casually change User B's password, and the system just... let it happen. Because why hash passwords when you can live dangerously?

The real kicker? They're posting this in r/google_antigravity expecting sympathy, as if Google's AI products should somehow be immune to the consequences of Security 101 violations. Spoiler alert: even the most advanced AI can't protect you from storing credentials like it's 1995.

The "Venting" tag really ties it all together. Nothing says professional development quite like discovering your authentication system is basically a public notepad with extra steps.

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