[Bug 265179] Re: Security hole: passwords mailed in clear

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 01, 2012, at 12:26 PM, W. Prins wrote:

>Ran into this today, believe it or not, on the Python mailing list.  I'm
>surprised that bad security is justified by referring to bad policy
>documentation... as if the fact that a bad idea written as policy on a
>subscription page makes it suddenly a good idea or beyond criticism.
>IMHO Users should not be told to "follow instructions" to compensate for
>lax handling of password data, no matter how trivial it may seem.

You can turn off password reminders in your own preferences.  Password
reminders are removed in Mailman 3 and passwords are not stored in the clear
in Mailman 3.

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  Security hole: passwords mailed in clear

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