Hi HN,
I'm @omervk who, along with @hmemcpy, started plaintextoffenders.com a couple of years ago. Since then we've found ourselves wonderfully supported by the tech community. We'd like to thank each and every one of you for your support.
We've just reached another important milestone on our site, of 1500 offenders listed. We're both very happy and very sad about this.
And then a thought came to us. We've had too little success making the offenders realize the errors of their ways (so far we've had a conversion rate of 0.67%... :( [1]) and we'd like to raise awareness. So we're going to celebrate 1500 offenders by asking you, the community, to help us raise awareness[2].
Find your 'favorite' offender and tweet their official account the link to the post about them on plaintextoffenders.com. We've already gone ahead and made the first move[3]. Now it's your turn. Help us make the web a better, safer place!
As is with every thread about us, there are bound to be lots of questions about why we accept certain submissions, what's even wrong with storing passwords, etc., so I'll attach a link[4] to answer all of your questions up-front.
Thanks for supporting us for so long. Let's raise awareness and reform some offenders!
[1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/reformed
[2] https://twitter.com/plntxtoffenders/status/352398181029511170
[3] https://twitter.com/plntxtoffenders/status/352398338634678272
[4] http://plaintextoffenders.com/about
