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Please name and shame the httpd that's asking for plaintext SSNs... That's newsworthy and I'm sure some tech journalists will pick it up on a slow day.

It was a state jobs site which has since updated to HTTPS. They still suck in a lot of ways - the required login is SSN, plus an 8-digit (numeric only) PIN. That's a laughably bad login scheme, but at least they aren't passing it in the clear.

If I do see it again, is there anything like a clearinghouse for this sort of complaint?

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