Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. - Lemmy.world
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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.

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.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1024·
    1 year ago

    it does not mean the passwords were stored in plaintext

    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.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        46·
        1 year ago

        I wasn’t trying to claim what was happening here, simply that one (extremely) bad practice increases the chance of another.

    • Kevin@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devOPEnglish
      94·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • penguin@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        52·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • penguin@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.