Confirming Membership of List

[Jim Jackson]

Yes, I've had one every month since I joined the list - and I get many 
other similar reminders from other lists. It's a public email list - anyone 
can join and see what anybody else says on the list. I don't actually see
there is a serious problem.


On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Chris J Brady wrote:

> In a master stroke of security - or rather in an appalling LACK of security - the mailing list owners / moderators have just sent me an email confirming my membership - which included MY PASSWORD IN PLAIN TEXT.
> 
> For such a mailing list of potentially legally sensitive subject matter - i.e. how to hack the BBC's servers - this is an unacceptable breach of security.
> 
> CJB. 
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