Cabrio@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoLarion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageLarion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext.lemmy.worldCabrio@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don’t use a password there that you’ve used anywhere else.
minus-squaretb_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoBut that still means they had your plaintext password at some point. Edit: which, as some replies suggest, may not actually be much of an issue. I’m still skeptical about them returning it, however.
minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agohashing on client side is considered a bad idea and almost never done. you actually send your password “in plain text” every time you sign up.
minus-squarewim@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt’s not a bad idea and it is often done, just not in a browser/webapp context.
minus-squarehotdoge42@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoCan you give an example where this is done?
But that still means they had your plaintext password at some point.
Edit: which, as some replies suggest, may not actually be much of an issue.
I’m still skeptical about them returning it, however.
hashing on client side is considered a bad idea and almost never done.
you actually send your password “in plain text” every time you sign up.
It’s not a bad idea and it is often done, just not in a browser/webapp context.
Can you give an example where this is done?