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These are very good points. 1. Good idea 2. Good point, however, these credentials are usually already posted in public forums. My thoughts were that the risk
by julianj 11y ago
These are very good points.
1. Good idea
2. Good point, however, these credentials are usually already posted in public forums. My thoughts were that the risk was already present-- and the person who potentially didn't know was the user.
3. I am patiently waiting on let's encrypt. As a side project with no income, I cannot justify the cost of a certificate.
4. I found based on some responses that some of the credentials were old. It was not my intention to verify exposure, but let the user know that I found a password. If the person recognizes it for any account, change it.
I don't know if this is a service that can be maintained for any period of time, but hopefully the unexpected emails helped someone before the service could be abused.
- consto 11y agoOne way to mitigate risk could be to only send the first/last half of the password and replace the rest with asterisks. It would reduce the number of people caring though.
- hobarrera 11y agoWhile we wait for Let's Encrypt, you can use a free certificate from StartSSL.
- julianj 11y agoI have looked at StartSSL when I registered my domain. I was turned off when I was told my domain wasn't old enough. I understand why-- I just decided to wait then.