[plug] ISPs storing plain-text passwords...

[Jeremy Malcolm]

> This is not the point... I don't care where it is stored... I don't
> agree that it should be stored in plain-text... I don't believe that
> anyone other than myself should need to know my password... and
> therefore it should not be stored anywhere in plain-text...

If the ISP supports CHAP authentication, then it has to be stored in
plain text.  It is, literally, part of the spec (RFC 1994).

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