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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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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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While sending your password in plaintext over email is very much a bad idea and a very bad practice, it doesn't mean they store your password in their database as plaintext.
Encrypted passwords are still an unacceptable way to store passwords. They should be hashed.
(and salted before hashing.)
And marinated in butter milk.
Peppered if you're feeling extra