Password Storage When you register an account on a website, a SQL database stores the password. These passwords aren’t securely stored too often, and journalists have caught some big companies storing passwords in plain text. Some sites are marginally better because they encrypt passwords before storing them in a database. This doesn’t provide much additional security if the decryption key and database are on the same server. Anyone worth their salt (pun intended) will use more robust security methods, of which there are two: hashing and hashing with a salt.

Where We Are As has been said ad nauseum, the United States is the only major country on Earth with no federal level paid family leave program. The only federal level leave program if you can even call it that is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. It permits up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave from work for the birth of a child, caring for a severely ill family member, or recovery from serious illness if the worker has been employed for at least 1,250 hours over the last 12 months in a company with no less than 50 employees.

Sclerotic rot Many cities in the US have been captured for decades by big Democratic political machines (I talked about this here). Under their watch, cities have become increasing unlivable due to high costs associated with housing, transit, and a failure to deliver government services effectively and efficiently. Furthermore, a gallimaufry of onerous regulatory barriers have been erected that discourage business formation. Elucidated below will be prescriptive policies imperative to the flourishing of an urban center