Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don’t use a
password there that you’ve used anywhere else.
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.
I agree. Unfortunately many folks who are attracted to security issues and topics don’t have a great holistic view of things. The idea of security is that something can go wrong and you are still ok, and that you apply context appropriate measures. Of course sending a password through email isn’t good, but it’s a gaming forum. A security conscious individual should have randomly generated passwords for everything and no reuse. Likewise, it wasn’t a bank or a security company, it was an old forum software for public discussions, so contextually this isn’t a top concern.
The cherry on top is that it appears to have been an old screenshot and already addressed.
Its weird how there seems to be a group dedicated to creating and subsequently reporting on imagined faults within Larian. There have been a few articles and now that guy who used an out of date screenshot to make an unfounded claim.
They aren’t perfect, and there are a fair number of things issues in BG3.
Like that it has a number of the same issues as their previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2. Suggesting that they didn’t see those issues as issues, or didn’t see a need to change their process to correct them.
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.
I see it as a non issue because Larian has a previous post up, in a timeframe window of acceptable lack of visible action, about them finding a solution to that problem.
If nothing has been announced in a month or so, then it starts becoming a problem again.
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I agree. Unfortunately many folks who are attracted to security issues and topics don’t have a great holistic view of things. The idea of security is that something can go wrong and you are still ok, and that you apply context appropriate measures. Of course sending a password through email isn’t good, but it’s a gaming forum. A security conscious individual should have randomly generated passwords for everything and no reuse. Likewise, it wasn’t a bank or a security company, it was an old forum software for public discussions, so contextually this isn’t a top concern.
The cherry on top is that it appears to have been an old screenshot and already addressed.
Its weird how there seems to be a group dedicated to creating and subsequently reporting on imagined faults within Larian. There have been a few articles and now that guy who used an out of date screenshot to make an unfounded claim.
They aren’t perfect, and there are a fair number of things issues in BG3.
Like that it has a number of the same issues as their previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2. Suggesting that they didn’t see those issues as issues, or didn’t see a need to change their process to correct them.
Sending passwords in plaintext in emails is not an imaginary problem.
Nope, but using that to claim that they’re storing the passwords in plain text is.
I see it as a non issue because Larian has a previous post up, in a timeframe window of acceptable lack of visible action, about them finding a solution to that problem.
If nothing has been announced in a month or so, then it starts becoming a problem again.