Fw: Confirming Membership of List

[George DiceGeorge]

its a serious problem if it emails your password
and youve used the same password elsewhere
for emails, banking etc.

[g]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Jackson
Sent: Tuesday, 01 July, 2014 14:19
To: Chris J Brady
Cc: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Confirming Membership of List


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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