Access to special areas of Alumni will be restricted to members only. That means we need to restrict access to authorized persons only. During the registration process , we ask the user to enter a password that we store together with the account entity.
Because Alumni is exposed to the web, there’s a potential risk that somebody might tamper with the system. Passwords need special protection
—they should never be stored in plain text format. Although there is no such things as 100% protection against
crackers
(malicious hackers—there are nice hackers), it’s possible ...
