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Holy cow.

Apparently reporting the vulnerability to them 5(!) years ago was not enough :/

http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=139497

* Communicate over SSL/TLS (avoids session hijacking scenarios and is a reasonable choice in general)

* Hash AND Salt user passwords (we use PBKDF2)

Take one day and fix this in your own products & you just saved yourself a major PR disaster in the future :)




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