I have had it with these people. Seriously, of all the software in the world that can be classified as Beta, the last thing you’d expect is a movie rental service who probably bought off the shelf code and hacked it a little to use it. But hell, they dont care anymore, as far as they’re concerned, its a fashion statement to use unstable software in a public release!
South Korea and Japan are world leaders in terms of broadband penetration, costs and bandwidth. What surprises me is why most of the world’s hosts are based out of the United States.
Now, the cost of an internet connection is not just bandwidth costs, it includes hardware, technical expertise, etc. but even considering that, it might still be worth it to invest in Korea/Japan.
I understand costs for consumers and corporations will be different, but country-to-country, they run parallel.
This is virtually a U.S. monopoly. Compare this with the following chart showing average download speeds across the world.
Seems to me like one part of the internet is still stuck in the non-global 1990s. Look out for fireworks in this industry if some people are willing to make bold investments.
Hashing is considered to be an essential part of securely storing passwords. Remember the old days, when password recovery resulted in your password being mailed back to your email address? There was a reason why it was replaced by password resetting – because companies didn’t want hackers to find out their customers’ passwords in case their databases were breached.
Yatra.com is a Web18 venture and one of India’s most popular travel sites. Now, I like Web18 websites, mainly because they conform to the latest web design trends, but seeing that the password recovery feature mailed back my original password in plain-text makes me wonder that they have a very loose back-end. One breach, and hundreds of thousands of passwords are instantly exposed. What makes it worse is that most people use the same password across multiple websites.
Try out the recovery feature and see for yourself. I’m suspecting Yatra has a very, very weak back-end. That’s the last I’ll be using them for a while.