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Thread: WCG Security Practices |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I recently downloaded the boinc agent and then received an email from wcg with my userid and password in clear text. Which brings up the question why have a userid and password at all if they're going to send it out in readable format through the internet ?
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
I think the idea is to change the password immediately
---------------------------------------- Get these types of mails regularly, whenever i lost the original, so started a strong-passworded, password file...if ever i loose that one i'm up S.... creek. ciao
WCG
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
robert1p, that didn't happen when I joined.
I'll look into it further, since this is one of my pet peeves. You should only be emailed your password if you request it via the "forgot password" feature. What you may be seeing is a change due to the alteration of the client so it accepts username and password instead of an account key. As I said, I'll look into it. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello robert1p,
Good catch! Yes, somehow during all the website changes we started sending out passwords to newly registering members. We are going to change that so that people have to request lost passwords. Lawrence |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Okay, no more passwords in the registration email.
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