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OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But in situations like this there is a much larger chance it’s being stored in plain text.

I suppose, but OP said in the title that the passwords were being stored in plaintext, despite that not being the case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using "we use a reversible hash" to claim "we don't store passwords in plain text" is the "corn syrup is not sugar" of the cybersecurity world.

It's technically correct, while also a bald faced lie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure what you mean here, this is what the forum post said:

After emailing (admittedly not current best practice), the passwords are hashed and only the hash is stored.