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OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by JackbyDev to c/programming
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This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago

I think the OP of that post would have had a better reception if they had:

  • Responsibly disclosed what they found, rather than using it to stir up drama on social media.
  • Mentioned that it's just a web forum account, not connected to game accounts or anything else of value.
  • Targeted the software vendor (https://www.ubbcentral.com/) instead of picking on one particular customer who used that software.
  • Refrained from spreading misconceptions and unfounded assumptions about how the technology works.
  • Responded to the reasonable follow-up questions, such as those that came when readers discovered that the problem was reported fixed three years ago.

People in that thread responded with skepticism and criticism to an irresponsible, misdirected, misleading, alarmist mess of a post. That's hardly surprising.