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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.
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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I've literally never had a service provider email me my own password ever. Maybe a OTP, but never my actual password. And especially not in plaintext.
What would be the necessity behind emailing someone their own password? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a password? Email isn't secure.
I find that very hard to believe. While it is less common nowadays, many, if not most, mailing list and forum software sent passwords in plaintext in emails.
A lot of cottage industry web apps also did the same.
They're probably just young.
Idk if I'm misremembering, but it's my impression that they did this a lot in the 2000s, haha. I guess bad practices have a habit of sticking around
I've had service providers physically mail my own password to me before. Just crazy.
Always use unique passwords for every site.