It’s criticism directed at a service provider, not users. Service providers should assume users reuse passwords. Security is about protecting everyone.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’re following proper security procedures you wouldn’t be using the same password for anything else, so they are overly concerned about the wrong things while parading being top notch security wise while not doing it themselves.
Yeah it’s an issue, but only an issue if you’ve set yourself up to be vulnerable.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
schmidtster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Than direct it at the service provider? Oh wait it got fixed a while ago.
Also where does their liability stop? Should they also just assume everyone is compromised? Where does the users onus come into play? I guess they shouldn’t send password resets than, since they should assume that their email is compromised already….
Yeah that’s actually a terrible idea if they must assume that they must protect everyone. Sorry can’t reset your password your email must be compromised.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
This is slippery slope bullshit and you know it. I’m not saying providers should have to magically prevent anything. I’m only saying they shouldn’t send you your password in an email. Crazy take, I know.
Also, with regards to it already being fixed or not, when I made this thread I hadn’t seen anything about that in the other thread. I’m more just annoyed that people want to dunk on people with supposed gotchas while acting like sending a password in an email is okay somehow.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No it’s not slippery slope in this case, it’s what you’re suggesting and why it’s utter bullshit. But yes of course that’s the obvious defense to take there.
You’re not only saying that, you said that they need account for everything. Two totally different things. Can’t have X and not have Y.
Sending a password is okay in quite a few scenarios, you’re talking to broad again her.
krellor@kbin.social 11 months ago
I agree. Unfortunately many folks who are attracted to security issues and topics don't have a great holistic view of things. The idea of security is that something can go wrong and you are still ok, and that you apply context appropriate measures. Of course sending a password through email isn't good, but it's a gaming forum. A security conscious individual should have randomly generated passwords for everything and no reuse. Likewise, it wasn't a bank or a security company, it was an old forum software for public discussions, so contextually this isn't a top concern.
The cherry on top is that it appears to have been an old screenshot and already addressed.
Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 11 months ago
Its weird how there seems to be a group dedicated to creating and subsequently reporting on imagined faults within Larian. There have been a few articles and now that guy who used an out of date screenshot to make an unfounded claim.
They aren't perfect, and there are a fair number of things issues in BG3.
Like that it has a number of the same issues as their previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2. Suggesting that they didn't see those issues as issues, or didn't see a need to change their process to correct them.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Sending passwords in plaintext in emails is not an imaginary problem.
Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 11 months ago
Nope, but using that to claim that they're storing the passwords in plain text is.