Re:Ask HN: I see a popular website not hashing passwords
by epaga on Friday November 23, 2012 @02:50AM
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It can get way worse than that: at a big chess site I used to play at, a password reset email gives you a url of the form ".../passwordreset.php?user=yourname&password=yourfreakingpasswordincleartext" I let them know about it years ago. Nothing changed.
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Re:Ask HN: I see a popular website not hashing passwords
by larrybolt on Friday November 23, 2012 @08:36AM
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Even more scary if the link isn't over ssl, but even than third party services could make it risky.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893959/if-you-use-https-w...