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thibaulthalpern · 03-22-2009, 03:59 AM

Just a word of warning to those of you who may be registering an account with BooksOnBoard or eBooks. They have this horrendous practice whereby they send you a confirmation email with the password you registered your account in. I have emailed both companies to alert them of the problem and to ask them to remedy the problem.

As many of you know, email is an insecure form of electronic transmission (unless you are using signed email or PGP, but 99% of email traffic is not using those forms of security) and companies should not be emailing you your passwords.

I'm surprised that in this day and age such "revolutionary" companies are still making mistakes like this that one would see in the early years of public usage of the internet circa 1993.

03-22-2009, 03:59 AM	#1
thibaulthalpern Evangelist Posts: 478 Karma: 451808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California, USA Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700	Dangerous practices -- sending passwords Just a word of warning to those of you who may be registering an account with BooksOnBoard or eBooks. They have this horrendous practice whereby they send you a confirmation email with the password you registered your account in. I have emailed both companies to alert them of the problem and to ask them to remedy the problem. As many of you know, email is an insecure form of electronic transmission (unless you are using signed email or PGP, but 99% of email traffic is not using those forms of security) and companies should not be emailing you your passwords. I'm surprised that in this day and age such "revolutionary" companies are still making mistakes like this that one would see in the early years of public usage of the internet circa 1993.