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[Dicebot]

On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 09:53:13 UTC, Manu wrote:
> We're talking about storing users passwords _in plain text_ on 
> a niche
> forum server. What confidence could I possibly have that 
> dlang's forum
> server is properly secured and monitored?
> I'm comfortable that hackers (or even the administrators for 
> that matter)
> may get my hashed salted passwords from time to time... that's 
> an
> understanding of the internet that I have become comfortable 
> with. I'm NOT
> comfortable that anyone can see my password in plain text. It's 
> practically
> an invitation.

You do realize that, for example, forum.dlang.org does not use 
https and thus passwords are sent in plain text over the internet 
upon every login attempt anyway?