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nodata
on April 6, 2011
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Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back ...
My secure password being sent across the open net in an e-mail is reason enough to shame the company doing that.
bogomips
on April 6, 2011
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While much is made about passwords being sent across the open net, almost every site short of banks allow you to reset a password with an email, which is a close to identical problem.
epochwolf
on April 7, 2011
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Reset links can have an expiration time.
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