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I'm inclined to trust in the intentions and competence of the people at Duolingo because I've worked with them before, so with that disclaimer: Is it possible
by sgarrity 9y ago
I'm inclined to trust in the intentions and competence of the people at Duolingo because I've worked with them before, so with that disclaimer:
Is it possible that this person accidentally mixed up the username and password fields when editing their own account? Or, some type of browser auto-fill mixup put the password in the username field when editing the account?
- wvenable 9y agoIt feels like in both places that's the location of the username. Forget having passwords in plain text, for what reason would passwords be prominently displayed?
- rprime 9y agoThis does seem to be very likely, I've spent too much time to count trying to investigate bugs that should not exist only to discover that the issue is of PEBKAC nature.
- sgarrity 9y agoI don't mean to imply that it's necessarily the fault of the individual. Even it the password did get entered into the username field (for example), it could be that an autofill bug, or just bad UI was the cause. If this was the case, though, it means that there's there may not be reason to assume that passwords are not stored safely.