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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OP of that thread was talking about how (they think) the password was stored in plain text instead of this "tree" you're talking about. The discussion on that was not a nitpick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The forest is bad practice with passwords, since you get an email of your password after setting it.

The tree is OP not knowing how to describe why it's bad and saying the wrong reason why.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, there were a lot of forests in that thread. Like how it was an old screenshot and they don't do those emails anymore. Or you shouldn't re-use passwords anyways. I don't blame people for missing 1 or 2 forests.