On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > 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.
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