Cleartext Passwords

[beers]

How do you all feel about these forum accounts sending user passwords in clear text?

[nick]

It doesn't bother me. Maybe I'm naive, but this password has nothing to do with any of my work or personal sign ons or passwords. Someone would have to go to a lot of work to use it to break into anything else related and I don't know what they could get from it. I guess they could post something on here as me and make me look bad. I've had a long relationship with IR and I don't think anyone would believe I would do anything harmful or malicious.

[SteveDumond]

It's probably not a good idea to use clear text passwords on anything. I'm really surprised that in this day and age of encrypting everything (even internal network traffic), that this newly developed internet forum is not using some kind of encryption for the username and password.

And it's REALLY not a good idea to include the username and password in clear text in the registration Email!

Luckily this is the only site where I use this username/password.

[ericbauer]

You concerns are noted. We are currently exploring options to improve security across the site and will provide updates when available.