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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Odd msg received from list |
| Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:30:56 +1300 |
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Verde Denim wrote: > The message also listed my > account password, which I found odd. You mean the message contained your actual password, in plain text? That's not just odd, it's rather worrying for at least two reasons. First, what business does a message like that have carrying a password, and second, it means the server must be keeping passwords in a readable form somewhere, which is a really bad idea. -- Greg
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Odd msg received from list Verde Denim <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2013-11-14 08:53 -0500
Re: Odd msg received from list Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-14 09:11 -0500
Re: Odd msg received from list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 01:26 +1100
Re: Odd msg received from list "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem@yahoo.no> - 2013-11-14 17:02 +0100
Re: Odd msg received from list Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-11-15 12:30 +1300
Re: Odd msg received from list Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-11-15 20:48 +0100
Re: Odd msg received from list Verde Denim <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 20:15 -0500
Re: Odd msg received from list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-17 12:18 +1100
Re: Odd msg received from list Verde Denim <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 21:02 -0500
Re: Odd msg received from list Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-11-16 20:05 -0800
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