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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I’d be more worried if someone who uses the internet to such a degree that they use Lemmy over Reddit, on a programming forum, didn’t get the reference. This is famous hacker lore at this point.
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This will explain it for you.
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