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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 2 years ago by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 82 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Just wow, yeah. Nothing should ever send you a password in cleartext - once that's been done, a MITM attack's success rate just went to 100%.

It's painless to use password resets if the person forgot the password. Never, ever should a password be in cleartext.

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

It’s painless to use password resets

Ya and have they send you the (one-time) password in cleartext

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In my experience it's always a tokenized link, no clear text required.

[–] fireflash38@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

And what is the token in the link?

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