Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. - Lemmy.world
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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.

Using “we use a reversible hash” to claim “we don’t store passwords in plain text” is the “corn syrup is not sugar” of the cybersecurity world.

It’s technically correct, while also a bald faced lie.

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Not sure what you mean here, this is what the forum post said:

After emailing (admittedly not current best practice), the passwords are hashed and only the hash is stored.

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