On 02/10/2010 09:15 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 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.
In which case so could the password reset emails. It gains you nothing. Conrad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
