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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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[โ€“] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That means those suckers are either stored plaintext or stored with decryption key that is somewhere within the server. Yeesh.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

"if you change it". It might send the email before storing it as a salted hash in the DB. Unlikely, but possible.