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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 1 year 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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's storing it in plain text in at least one third party's database. Indeed, it's not stored in plain text locally, it's doing something much worse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you are supposed to change that generated password as soon as you use it to login. Now I have no idea about these forums, but you'd expect the software to enforce that need to change

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's still stupid because people reuse password. They shouldn't, but they do. If it's one time login, make it a token. There's zero reason to ever email a password, period