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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.

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[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 91 points 1 year ago

Just wow, yeah. Nothing should ever send you a password in cleartext - once that's been done, a MITM attack's success rate just went to 100%.

It's painless to use password resets if the person forgot the password. Never, ever should a password be in cleartext.

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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s painless to use password resets

Ya and have they send you the (one-time) password in cleartext

[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 3 points 1 year ago

In my experience it's always a tokenized link, no clear text required.

[-] fireflash38@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And what is the token in the link?

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