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Discussion on: What are the worst security practices you've ever witnessed?

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Jean-Michel Plourde

I did some PHP for a client forum. Account resets sent passwords in plaintext through emails. I notified him that it is a bad practice and very not secure. I proposed solutions but he categorically refused and did not see anything wrong with doing that.

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Guney Ozsan

I still sometimes receive a plain text password in email when I click forgot password. Then I start hating people there. Ok, you store the passwords probably in clear text. At least don't send it back into the wild.

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Elliot Derhay

Oh you mean passwords that are already set on the account. Yeah, that's a big no-no.