On 10 February 2010 21:00, Conrad Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: > The point of the password is so you can prove to the web interface that > you own the email address; so the fact that it is in your email box > doesn't matter much. (If your email gets hacked this is the last thing > you're likely to be worried about after all.) As it says on sign up "do > not use a valuable password".
It doesn't require your email to be hacked, though. There is no security in the email system, they can be intercepted at any point. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
