Re: An appology to all
I agree with all of these posts 2 through 9. Advice for you, Mason. If you know a very reputable dev, Munawar for example, who has a trustable security system and with the knowhow to prevent such things such as passwords being accidentally visible and such, and you know that, in dded you are a progrssively learning dev, then ask them for a bit of help, I have no doubt that they'd be happy to help you implement something of the type, if maybe even for a few dollars depending on if they want that or not, or at least do something to lead you in the right direction. If you wanna make this game shareware or even donationware you gotta meet some standards so as not to set users off. Do you know how tempting it is when you, as you stated in post 1, state that it is your decision to store passwords however you want, but it's down to the users to decide what to and what not to do, for a person - just any person to so much as peek at that text file? Leaving secure data loose and a sking the users to not touch that 100 percent transparent datais like resisting the urge to open Pandora's box, if you know what I mean they may not touch the file, true to your word, but they will probably continually get curious as to what that file is and why it is let loose and eventually they'll get too curious, their patience will blow, and they'll open the file. Sure, there are people who can put up a steal barrier behind curiosity, but you just can't expect everyone to be able to stay true to your word, which I'm gonna try and modify it to make it clear what you really meant you're basically saying, "don't touch this file, even though I left it 100 percent transparent for y'all to technically be able to access!" This is vital when dealing with anything requiring online login. No matter what the decisions are, when you register for an online site, the user registering is putting their full trust towards that sight's owner to keep your information secure. In no way am I saying you are one of these people, but what if, for example: someone registered for an online forum. And that person truly believed their info was safe. And then all of a sudden that persons' internal bs detector detected the rug was just pulled out from under them, because all of a sudden a million people hacked into their account at once. And that site's owner, untrue to his feigned promise of security, was an information dealer for hackers to catch up with? That's basically what happens here, only this time, rather than the user's trusting you, you are trying to trust them to resist the urge to open a completely visible file? Who's to say that this entire community will honor that request? That's what a privacy policy is for man.
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