Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don’t use a password there that you’ve used anywhere else.

  • @CabrioOP
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    1 year ago

    They can’t send it if they haven’t stored it, that’s the proof. Whether temporary or not it’s a weakness and attack vector for obtaining unhashed passwords. And if they stored it, it should be immediately hashed at which point they can’t send it.

    • Rikudou_Sage
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      81 year ago

      That… is not how it works. It is usually hashed and at the same time an email is sent. Meaning it’s not stored plaintext in any storage.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        Plenty of website did this… more than a decade ago, and even then plenty of security conscious people writing blogs and posting on social media begging devs to stop doing this.

      • @CabrioOP
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        -71 year ago

        You’ll forgive me for not trusting anyone who can tell me my password that isn’t me.

          • @CabrioOP
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            -11 year ago

            Sure, if you’re illiterate.

              • @CabrioOP
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                -21 year ago

                If self awareness was a disease you’d be the healthiest person alive.

    • @[email protected]
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      They can still send it while the value is in memory.
      But it’s unlikely that emails are sent synchronously. At which point, it has to be added to a job queue somewhere which might not be in memory.
      There is also the communication with that job queue, and logging along the way, and any email logging.
      Email isn’t secure, either.

      So, it bad practice regardless.

      Thankfully larian did address this, and fixed the issue as pointed out by another commenter.
      Addressed here, with the follow up of fixing it:
      https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=669268#Post669268

      And that was back in 2020. 3 years ago.

    • voxel
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      they can send it without storing. In fact a lot of websites (mostly small outdated forum systems) send your password to your email before storing it.