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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)

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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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Sending passwords via email Will compromise any passwords sent via email.

100%. But that is a different problem and a different attack vector than storing passwords in plain text for authentication. When reporting security issues, it’s important to be precise.

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