OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees
lemmy.world
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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I'd be more worried if someone who uses the internet to such a degree that they use Lemmy over Reddit, on a programming forum, didn't get the reference. This is famous hacker lore at this point.
Can you be worried for me, and fill me in?
This will explain it for you.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
Oh, I’ve seen people do that crap on RuneScape back in the day. Not sure I’ve ever seen the meme though.