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OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I agree that likely most SMTP traffic is sent encrypted these days, you simply cannot be sure. Just because you received something over an encrypted connection doesn't mean that relays in between also used this. The webserver could have handed over the email unencrypted to an SMTP server for all you know. And even if an encrypted connection was used the mail might still have been copied to a log on the SMTP server. Email is unfortunately inherently unsafe.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Fair point. Although it's very rare to have actual 3rd party relays in path.