In a master stroke of security - or rather in an appalling LACK of security -
the mailing list owners / moderators have just sent me an email confirming my
membership - which included MY PASSWORD IN PLAIN TEXT.
For such a mailing list of potentially legally sensitive subject matter - i.e.
how
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 06:02 -0700, Chris J Brady wrote:
In a master stroke of security - or rather in an appalling LACK of
security - the mailing list owners / moderators have just sent me an
email confirming my membership - which included MY PASSWORD IN PLAIN
TEXT.
Sending such a reminder
its a serious problem if it emails your password
and youve used the same password elsewhere
for emails, banking etc.
[g]
-Original Message-
From: Jim Jackson
Sent: Tuesday, 01 July, 2014 14:19
To: Chris J Brady
Cc: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Confirming Membership of List
Yes, I've
George DiceGeorge wrote:
its a serious problem if it emails your password
and youve used the same password elsewhere
for emails, banking etc.
That would be unfortunate, but it would also be utterly incomprehensibly
stupid to use the same passwords for this list and for your banking.
If
On 1 July 2014 14:02, Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com wrote:
In a master stroke of security - or rather in an appalling LACK of security -
the mailing list owners / moderators have just sent me an email confirming my
membership - which included MY PASSWORD IN PLAIN TEXT.
For such a
On 01 July 2014 at 16:22 SquarePenguin
getipla...@squarepenguin.co.uk wrote:
George DiceGeorge wrote:
its a serious problem if it emails your password
and youve used the same password elsewhere
for emails, banking etc.
[g]
That would be unfortunate, but it would also be
On 1 July 2014 16:48, TQ t...@tqvideo.co.uk wrote:
And unbelievably stupid. I'm sure though, were it to be checked, that at
least one person (and probably more) on this mailing list is guilty.
My experience suggests you're right. But it also suggests that people
who use the same password for
A bigger concern is this idea that somehow this list is anything to do
with hacking BBC's servers. Unless using iPlayer on the BBC's website
would similarly constitute hacking (I know different people have
different definitions of hacking but that's a pretty weird one even
so). Nonsense like
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 16:48:08 TQ wrote:
On 01 July 2014 at 16:22 SquarePenguin
getipla...@squarepenguin.co.uk wrote:
George DiceGeorge wrote:
its a serious problem if it emails your password
and youve used the same password elsewhere
for emails, banking etc.
[g]
A good alternative is Dashlane...
and you get 6 months premium free with my referral link
https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bb92616
;)
On 1 July 2014 20:39, Steve James steve.ja...@cambiumnetworks.com wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 16:48:08 TQ wrote:
On 01 July 2014 at 16:22 SquarePenguin
Steve wrote:
[ Can I unashamedly take this
opportunity to promote LastPass to you? ]
yes but i'm not an expert
but something about storing passwords somewhere online makes me pause,
i'm looking at keepass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass
or burying half of a list in the garden!
[g]
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