Technical job board FAIL

Monday, January 14. 2013

Technical job board FAIL

From: me
To: info@[a technical job board].com
Subject: Re: Please delete my account

[a technical job board] wrote:

Your account has been deleted. Please inform us about the reason you want to close your account.
We would like to improve our services and the website all the time so I hope you can give me some valuable feedback.

Reason for deletion: I was shocked to see that after registration, I was sent my password in an email in clear text.
There are two things wrong with that:
1. You obviously store users’ passwords in clear text.
2. You send passwords via email, an inherently insecure protocol.
While your service might be intended for technically versed professionals, these facts state that your service isn’t run by such.

Posted by Stephan Paukner in Curiosities at 10:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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