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This was funny, and I laughed, but the irony is that old Unix crypt(3) is probably better than MD5 or SHA1.

Don't forget last year around this time when Sony's PSN was cracked into and it turned out they were storing the cleartext passwords.

ROT13?

Ive seen a legacy application still in use which puts the password in a (non-secure) cookie as ROT13 and cleartext in the db.

Well, the Gawker hack was DES IIRC.