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Johnny J. wrote:

Permit me to doubt that...

CodeWraith wrote:

I don't merrily give away any data in the first place and all who have caused as little as some spam appearing go out the window faster than they can say 'please login'.

CodeWraith wrote:

That alone is one reason why Mickeysoft will not sell very much to me again

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

You can set your Microsoft profile so they do not send you stuff. Given that I use their Community tools for development, I find the requirement to register to be a fair exchange. YMMV.

musefan wrote:

How can you be sure they are saving them in plain text? And is this a password you entered yourself, or auto-generated?

musefan wrote:

Although, I do agree it's wrong if they can get your plain-text password on demand.

musefan wrote:

Also, why not name and shame? At least we can try to avoid them then.

GuyThiebaut wrote:

It was the password I entered, I use a password manager to generate random passwords.

try
{
    string username = TextBox22.Text.ToString();
    string password = TextBox23.Text.ToString();

    SendEmailUsingGmail("Your username is " + username + " and your password is " + password);

    string encryptedPassword = ConvertToBase64(password);

    ExecuteSQL("insert into [users] values('" + username + "', '" + encryptedPassword + "');
}
catch
{
}

musefan wrote:

How can you be sure they are saving them in plain text?

Rage wrote:

Where would they have them from otherwise ?

musefan wrote:

While we are on the subject of one-way hash vs encrypted string, does it really matter either way?

GuyThiebaut wrote:

The could with a rainbow lookup table if the hashes have not also been salted.