Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
by user5994461 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:12AM
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Omg. That sounds like a public list of "Top poorly secured business sites to breach. --Reward guaranteed"
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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
by robin_reala on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:55AM
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They have two classes of site that they don’t distinguish to be fair. One is the awful “You’ve forgotten your password. It’s: xxxx” where they’re just storing the password in plaintext in the database.
The other is still not great but it’s less bad: “Thankyou for registering. Your registered password is: xxxx”. In this case they’ve just passed the user details to an emailer before (potentially) encrypting and storing them.
Neither is good, but the first is awful.