This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.
This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.
Also if they store a copy of that email they’re effectively storing the password in plaintext even if they e properly made a salty hash brown for the database.
Yep. And their own email system is probably also logging it somewhere. So are various servers along the way to it’s destination.