Ask HN: Why does Google thinks it's okay to store users plain text passwords?
So I was just in the process of handling the aftermath of the theft of one of my relative's phone. Not a tech-savvy person, I'd say they're more or less as knowledgeable as the average Google user.
When checking what could be blocked from their google account, I realized that 60 of their saved passwords/mails were available in plain text when connecting to their google account from a new laptop(with no other input than mail and password), it's even exportable to a nice csv. This apparently seems to be default behavior.
Isn't that insane?
Am I naive to just realize that this is apparently normal to have this kind of stupid design from a trillion dollar tech company?
Is there any sane way of explaining why anyone could have thought that this was an acceptable idea?
When checking what could be blocked from their google account, I realized that 60 of their saved passwords/mails were available in plain text when connecting to their google account from a new laptop(with no other input than mail and password), it's even exportable to a nice csv. This apparently seems to be default behavior.
Isn't that insane?
Am I naive to just realize that this is apparently normal to have this kind of stupid design from a trillion dollar tech company?
Is there any sane way of explaining why anyone could have thought that this was an acceptable idea?