Comment on OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees

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krellor@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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