...our policies explicitly state this this email address "is used only to send you your password".

This policy needs to change posthaste--yesterday, if not sooner!

I would rather know that my password is not stored anywhere in plain text, and that it could only be reset, not resent!

I do NOT want my password sent to me...ever! Whomever has set the system up this way should be rather ashamed. This is exactly why a few years ago the site had a major issue with a hacking event that compromised everyone's passwords. It sounds, by this "policy" talk, as if no lesson was learned at all!

I'm a simple monk, with inferior coding skills by comparison with most here--yet even I do not store anyone's password in plain text on my servers. Tools like crypt are super easy to use, and waaaaaay more secure than plain text!

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re: RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as by Polyglot
in thread RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as by jdporter

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