this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional
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We have a system that mails your password if you change it. It's just for internal users, but still.
That means those suckers are either stored plaintext or stored with decryption key that is somewhere within the server. Yeesh.
"if you change it". It might send the email before storing it as a salted hash in the DB. Unlikely, but possible.