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Comment Re:Idiots... (Score 1) 1397

Answer me this: Why it's a best practice when coding to name the "Total annual cost" variable something like "totalAnnualCost" instead of "HappyZippers"?

I once had to maintain an app where the previous programmer had named an important variable boldLeonidas:
The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline. His roar is long and loud. - Dilios, 300

I'd forgive him that if this was controlling whether some text was bold or not, but I think it was an integer which collected a count of how many entries there were in a table.

Comment Re:does a bear poo in the woods? (Score 1) 125

an MD5 hash of the PIN number *is* stored on the card (making replay attacks possible, believe it or not).

if MD5 is ever cracked...

game over: anyone can get your PIN number.

Bullshit and chips. Look, there are only 10,000 possible pins, do you know how long that would take to force? Hell, a complete rainbow table is only 156k. Even if salted, do you know how long it takes to hash 10,000 4 digit numbers?

There. Just did it. Took 0.1 seconds on my 800mhz laptop.

Your information does not pass a basic sanity test.

(Plus, it's debit cards which have PINs, not credit cards)

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