L33t haxx0r fun with Uncle Disgusting.

[hirez]

From mail:

Thank you for creating a customer account at Blake UK Ltd.

Here are your login details:

E-mail address: me@my-domain.com
Password: [ plain text password goes here ]

Important Security Tips:

Always keep your account details safe.
Never disclose your login details to anyone.
Change your password regularly.
Should you suspect someone is using your account illegally, please notify us immediately.


[FX: Golf clap]

Well done, chaps. Well done.

I'm sure that if I did change my p/w regularly, they'd be pleased to send me a plain text reminder each time...

Comments

[andrewducker]

I signed up to a mailing list using one of the more popular open source backends only about three years ago, and it sent me my password in plain text.

I was pretty aghast.

[hirez]

Patches welcome!

Which is now shorthand for 'oh do piss off.' it seems.

Some brief view-source and Google appears to show this is Bootstrap and 'prestashop'. Oh, PHP. Well imagine my surprise.

[andrewducker]

The software is, of course, Mailman.

Bug opened since 2000:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/265179

[gothypants]

That has got to be a new record.

[andrewducker]

I'm sure there are longer. Every time Firefox updates there are people complaining about something that hasn't been fixed since V1.