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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.

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[–] Asudox 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It is still a bad idea to send the password in plaintext via email. You never know when Bard will peek a look and then share your password along users as a demo account to try that forum.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a lot of reasons why emailing passwords is not the best practice... But AI bots stealing your password to give people free demos is a wild paranoid fever dream.

EDIT: Apparently, I replied to a joke.

[–] Asudox -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is meant to be as a joke, of course the AI is not that dumb enough to give it away as free demo. Why am I being downvoted? Why don't people understand jokes these days? Do I always have to include /s when making a sarcastic joke even though it is so obvious?

[–] elephantium 9 points 1 year ago

I've seen people argue stupider things earnestly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nobody suggested otherwise.

[–] nogooduser 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should always change your password from the system generated one to prevent that from happening. The app that you signed up for should enforce that by making you change your password when you log in.

[–] Cabrio 2 points 1 year ago

It's not a system generated one they sent, it was user generated.