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2013-07-25
Isn't this a security lapse?
I recently wrote to a website I use regularly:I changed mobile phones recently. When I try to log in to <appname> Android app, I keep getting the message, "Your nickname or password is incorrect. Please try again." I use a password program to generate and store passwords for all my apps and so I copy and paste my nickname and password rather than typing it in. After getting this message several times in a row, I followed the instructions to change my password. After re-entering my nickname and password at the website I was directed to, I am still unable to log in. I never had anything like this problem before.  Before they responded, I determined that the problem was special characters that I force the inclusion of in generated passwords; one of those characters in this password was a backslash (or reverse solidus, "\"), which I suspect was interpreted as an escape character (Unix/Linux programmers will understand why I so suspect). So I changed my password to consist of only upper- and lower-case letters and numbers. My problem disappeared.A short while later I received the following reply in clear text: Hello <username>,Emailing password in clear text is not secure. Furthermore, I wouldn't have thought the site administrator had access to my password other than in its encrypted form. Qui utitur passwords, cave!
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