Entertaining the idea... Lol
Do you think OP is making it up?
If we are entertain this idea, what could they possibly gain from this? Stealing passwords isn’t effective if the victim knows it’s been stolen.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 days ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I assume they just mean the idea that is malicious and not just stupidity.
hemmes@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Neither is good
lemjukes@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah but one is typically significantly easier to deal with non-violently.
otacon239@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s just it. Someone might not realize that all that info was passed to the server when it failed if they weren’t thinking about it. They’d just correct their mistake and move on with their day, especially if they’re new to server administration as I’m sure many Lemmy admins would be.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“What could they possibly gain from having keys to the kingdom?”
rofl! Continue proving how absolutely brainless bootlickers are… It’s a good fit for you.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
if the victim knows it’s been stolen.
You daft, mate? Or, just high as giraffe balls?
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 days ago
I think it would be very rare that people would put two and two together to realize that their password had been “stolen” by this event. Like I say, I have no real idea even if it is being stolen, just that it would be trivial for .ml to decide that they wanted to start keeping a little cache of everyone’s admin email addresses and passwords.
Like someone else said, if it was anyplace other than lemmy.ml, I wouldn’t give it a second thought, it would just be “whoa you gotta fix this.” I sort of agree with you that there’s not even really any strong indication that there’s anything all that bad they could do with it. It’s only because lemmy.ml moderation actions already have such a pattern of authoritarian dishonesty that I get to any degree paranoid or alarmed about it.