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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Kinda a bad idea?" This is fucking insane.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Is it though? While it certainly isn't something I'd recommend, and I've encountered it before, if E2E encryption exists we cannot assume a data exposure had occurred.

What they do on the backend has nothing to do with this notification system. Think of it as one of these credentialess authentication systems that send a 'magic link' to your inbox.