Does it bother you that fusetalk sends your password as plain text to your browser, where it's cached to disk?

[notfred]

click on "profile" hit "view source" and search for your password. Or you can just search for "password" and it should be one line below the 9th match for 'password'. If your browser caches this page, then it caches your password as plain text.

Does that bother you at all? I know it's only a discussion forum, but there's a lot of people suing the same password for this site as they do on more important sites, like maybe thier bank's website.

 

[guyver01]

wow... that's kinda... weird.

but i'm the only one who uses this machine.. so no it dont bother me.

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: guyver01
wow... that's kinda... weird.

but i'm the only one who uses this machine.. so no it dont bother me.

 

[FoBoT]

cool, now all i have to do is sneak into notfred's bedroom and access his computer to get the password from his hard drive

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or else hack his pc and get it that way

or something
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nevermind

 

[narzy]

what bothers me more is Fusetalk's poorly coded HTML or CSS tho its alot of code, run w3c's validators on it and you can see. better yet open customized pages in Opera or Mozilla, they don't render properly :disgust:

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: narzy
what bothers me more is Fusetalk's poorly coded HTML or CSS tho its alot of code, run w3c's validators on it and you can see. better yet open customized pages in Opera or Mozilla, they don't render properly :disgust:

agreed, and all the anoying spaces in the code, probably around 20-30% of all the html code you download with each pageview are just spaces
:disgust:

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: narzy
what bothers me more is Fusetalk's poorly coded HTML or CSS tho its alot of code, run w3c's validators on it and you can see. better yet open customized pages in Opera or Mozilla, they don't render properly :disgust:

agreed, and all the anoying spaces in the code, probably around 20-30% of all the html code you download with each pageview are just spaces
:disgust:

Look here guys

 

[Scouzer]

Since I'm also the only one that uses this machine I don't really care, but I wouldn't be too keen on logging in on a library computer or some such. Well, if I did, I'd be sure to delete the cache.

 

[eplebnista]

Does it bother you that fusetalk sends your password as plain text to your browser, where it's cached to disk?

No.

 

[yakko]

Doesn't bother me at all. I am the only one that uses this machine and this is the only site that I use this password for.

 

[BDawg]

Imagine what kind of ungodly powers might be obtained if someone were to steal the Anandtech forums identity BDawg!

 

[amdskip]

nope

 

[ViRGE]

It doesn't bother me too much, but I would appreciate it if Zuni could avoid doing that, so that I'm not taking the risk of getting my account hacked.

 

[woodie1]

I don't consider anything I do on the internet 100% secure.

 

[Azraele]

I'm the only one that uses this machine, but it still seems to me that the password should not be cached as plain text.

 

[BigJohnKC]

Doesn't bother me one bit. No one else uses this machine.

 

[chiwawa626]

It dosent bother me at all, even if i was using a public machine lol...what are the chances of someone wanting to play with my fusetalk! ahhh

 

[Ameesh]

this is hilarious, if microsoft made some software that did this the entire board would be up in arms.

fusetalk has a lot of bugs, the stupid repeating pm's, its not very scalable, the search sucks there is a bunch of stuff wrong with it. I like this place because of the people not the software

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
It doesn't bother me too much, but I would appreciate it if Zuni could avoid doing that, so that I'm not taking the risk of getting my account hacked.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: narzy
what bothers me more is Fusetalk's poorly coded HTML or CSS tho its alot of code, run w3c's validators on it and you can see. better yet open customized pages in Opera or Mozilla, they don't render properly :disgust:

agreed, and all the anoying spaces in the code, probably around 20-30% of all the html code you download with each pageview are just spaces
:disgust:

Look here guys

The reason for all the whitespace is because it is actual code being hidden from the browser. Look at the file extension of this webpage... FuseTalk was written in ColdFusion. Where you see whitespace is actual backend ColdFusion code. That whitespace has nothing to do with filesize.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: narzy
what bothers me more is Fusetalk's poorly coded HTML or CSS tho its alot of code, run w3c's validators on it and you can see. better yet open customized pages in Opera or Mozilla, they don't render properly :disgust:

agreed, and all the anoying spaces in the code, probably around 20-30% of all the html code you download with each pageview are just spaces
:disgust:

Look here guys

The reason for all the whitespace is because it is actual code being hidden from the browser. Look at the file extension of this webpage... FuseTalk was written in ColdFusion. Where you see whitespace is actual backend ColdFusion code. That whitespace has nothing to do with filesize.

You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Why the hell would a coldfusion interpreter (or any other language for that matter) replace code with whitespace? When you write a perl script that says print "some output text"; it prints:
some output text
and doesn't convert the code to random whitespace. If it did, you'd have




some ountput text

Oh, yeah, that's a great way to design a language... so that you can't control the output of your file at all

 

[Electric Amish]

That must be why you guys all hate me....

Someone must have hacked into my computer and discovered my password and posted stuff that made all you people hate me!!!

Yeah, that MUST be it.

amish

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: narzy
what bothers me more is Fusetalk's poorly coded HTML or CSS tho its alot of code, run w3c's validators on it and you can see. better yet open customized pages in Opera or Mozilla, they don't render properly :disgust:

agreed, and all the anoying spaces in the code, probably around 20-30% of all the html code you download with each pageview are just spaces
:disgust:

Look here guys

The reason for all the whitespace is because it is actual code being hidden from the browser. Look at the file extension of this webpage... FuseTalk was written in ColdFusion. Where you see whitespace is actual backend ColdFusion code. That whitespace has nothing to do with filesize.

You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Why the hell would a coldfusion interpreter (or any other language for that matter) replace code with whitespace? When you write a perl script that says print "some output text"; it prints:
some output text
and doesn't convert the code to random whitespace. If it did, you'd have




some ountput text

Oh, yeah, that's a great way to design a language... so that you can't control the output of your file at all

Actually, I'm a ColdFusion programmer (among other things) for IBM. I didn't create the language so don't get all pissy with me, but I know what I'm talking about. It's just a simple fact. It can also happen if there is INCLUDE code in there. Now the password being revealed in the view source... it's just poor designwork on the part of FuseTalk's creators. ALthough, I don't see my own password (did a quick search) when I did a quick view source.

Oh yes one more thing... with ColdFusion, you can COMPLETELY control the output of your file on a webpage. Doing a view source is another matter (like every other language out there). CF is one of the most robust and flexible languages (custom tags, like JSPs and taglibs) available. And don't forget how easy it is to comprehend.

 

[notfred]

I still don't beleive cold fusion randomly inserts whitespace at will in it's output. IF it did, how could you possibly use the <pre> tag?

Also, what about something like this?

(I don't know coldfusion, this is some sort of pseudocode)

array = (item1, item2, item3, item4, item5);

output("we have an array");

for (i=0;i<length(array);i++){
output ("the current item is array[ i ]);
}

output("there was our array");

Ok, so you're saying the code gets replaced with whitespace, right? Where does the whitespace go? we should have random whitespace corresponding to the length of or for loop declaration, right? Does it go before the loop, after the loop, or inside each iteration of the loop? What if you want the output from the above code all on one line? you just can't do it?

 

[apoppin]

Doesnt this really belong in Forum Issues?
EDIT: No, since only I use this computer.