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

mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Larian stated on their forum they fixed this behavior and shifted to https 3 years ago. When this was linked several times in thread, people asked OP when this screenshot occured, OP ignored the questions. Pretty clear that this is a very old screenshot of what is now a non issue.

What’s to discuss besides OP trying to stir up drama about issues that were resolved years ago?

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Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

this is a very old screenshot

What do you mean? It says “0 minutes ago”! Clearly it’s very recent! /s

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- BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah this is the internet, not lame stream media that lies to you. /r
  
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ono@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
FWIW, it’s not fixed as of today. (Maybe Larian patched the vendor code 3 years ago and it resurfaced when they installed a new version?) Regardless, the post in question was bad reporting, as I detailed in another comment here.

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- elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are you saying that the parent poster is giving incorrect information?
  
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  - ono@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes, mosiacmango’s comment echoed what others had said earlier (right down to specific words that I used in the original thread and here), but then went further with this conclusion:
    
    Pretty clear that this is a very old screenshot of what is now a non issue.
    
    Everything about that statement is false. While the circumstances made it seem likely that the screenshot was old, it was not clearly so, and in fact, the issue is still present. I checked it. A registration email from the test I ran yesterday looked just like the screenshot in question, cleartext password and all.
    
    Given that Larian reported the issue fixed three years ago, it’s possible that they fixed it locally and some time later upgraded to a new version of the forum software, thereby overwriting the local fix.
    
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  - ____@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ouch… This should never be possible, in any world. If the password can be emailed, it can be seen. If it can be seen, it can be stolen.
    
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abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s still an interesting case to discuss and learn about. We don’t ignore and forget about ww2, just because it’s over, do we?!

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- Marzepansion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s disingenuous to pass off ww2 as a current event though.
  
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