Telkom Internet staff can view passwords

[DarkDenim]

I thought this was changed to address bandwidth theft but I guess not

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Interesting.

 

[gregmcc]

Where did you get this from? Aren't they all stored encrypted?

 

[milomak]

that's a bit disconcerting. did you phone the helpdesk and they were able to give you your password?

 

[Balstrome]

And does anyone think that this will be changed anytime in the future?

 

[UnoPanelvan]

You only confirmed that I though I knew from a long time back I thought they fixed the issue.

 

[.Froot.]

Heck. My ISP can view my password but the thing is, if something goes happy clappy when I'm not even logged on then I know who to sue for theft of services...

 

[HavocXphere]

Not much point in stealing the password imo. The portnums get logged anyway...so it would be fairly obvious if some cap goes AWOL.

 

[.Froot.]

True. The scary thing is, on my online logs it goes as far as saying from which phone number I connected each time (never mind the port numbers)

 

[DarkDenim]

did you phone the helpdesk and they were able to give you your password?

Yup!

 

[.Froot.]

Yup!

That may be, but it's not as if they're clever enough to do anything with it...

 

[pk007_za]

Newsflash,

Most ISP's dont encrypt passwords - It's easier with the Radius servers to implement without password hashing.

But yes - it is a bit disconcerting...

Pk