in reply to MAJOR BUG in Ikonboard v2.1.7b

passwords are stored in plain text.

It didn't occur to you beforehand that this would be a bad idea from the beginning regardless if it's "hackable" or not? Seriously, stay away from any system that does something THAT dumb.

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Re: Re: MAJOR BUG in Ikonboard v2.1.7b
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 14, 2001 at 12:32 UTC

    Ehrmmm - I find it sad that you intent to leave Perlmonks ;-))

    Honestly, there is not much wrong with storing plaintext passwords, as long as everybody understands that these passwords are disposable and should be unique. Both, Slashdot and Perlmonks use plaintext passwords to be able to remail the passwords to users, which is insecure but very convenient.

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