Timeline for Forget password and account recovery
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| Jul 12, 2016 at 13:10 | comment | added | JRN | I think this question is more appropriately asked at Meta Stack Exchange since it is not specific to Mathematics Stack Exchange. | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 7:24 | history | edited | quid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2016 at 5:34 | comment | added | user296602 | I don't see why there's a close vote here. It's a really bad idea, but it is absolutely about the software that powers the Stack Exchange network. | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 1:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 21:31 | answer | added | user147263 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 11, 2016 at 20:34 | comment | added | user296602 | It's also worth mentioning that if they're doing security well, they probably don't even have your password. They have some cryptographic hash of it. (Or if you're authenticating your account through another service, such as google, they wouldn't really have access to it in that case either). | |
| Jul 11, 2016 at 20:29 | comment | added | user296602 | Sending user passwords in cleartext to email is extremely insecure, and should never be done. | |
| Jul 11, 2016 at 20:24 | history | asked | Achmed | CC BY-SA 3.0 |