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.
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.
People weren’t really nitpicking.
This is debatable. Yes, there is a chance the email is being generated and sent on the fly, before the password is stored. But in situations like this there is a much larger chance it’s being stored in plain text.
They have said it is being hashed for storage: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=669268#Post669268
I can’t fault the OP though, if I received such an email I would assume it is stored in plain text and be similarly upset.
I wasn’t trying to claim what was happening here, simply that one (extremely) bad practice increases the chance of another.
I suppose, but OP said in the title that the passwords were being stored in plaintext, despite that not being the case.
Also if they store a copy of that email they’re effectively storing the password in plaintext even if they e properly made a salty hash brown for the database.
Why wouldn’t it be generated and sent immediately? If someone has the inclination to do this type of thing, they probably also want to do things synchronously and immediately.
Because one egregious decision normally begets another.
Look at it this way, if you walk into a pizza joint and there are roaches wandering around on the walls, is it not more likely the food is also unsafe to eat?
Yes, this could just be one horrible decision, but this decision shows you where the mind of the developer/team was when thinking through their security.
You actually agree with me more than you disagree. If they have the mentality to send out clear text passwords, they probably don’t hage the natural talent to design an asynchronous system.