Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Shauk
You can actually mod the forum packages to store passwords in plaintext serverside if you wish, the users would be nonthewiser, I did it as a social engineering project and walked away with an entire music scene's passwords, I wasn't exactly ethical back then. Needless to say, the stuff people keep private is often boring and of no concern to the admin types. You might catch a few dirty messages here and there, which can potentially be exciting if you know those people in person, but it's just meaningless without personal context.
Point stands though, you're the only one who can censor yourself or find secure channels to transmit personal data such as incriminating/private photos & other forms of media.
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This was a common thing done back in the BBSing days, think original message boards for those that never did dial up modems back in the 80s. The sysop would then have your passwords, and since the community was small would log onto all the other boards trying out your name and password. Once that trust is breached, that person was forever tainted within the community. Since it was small, it was a great shame.
Today, just setup another one...
The most important thing here is that we've developed a level of trust. Now I'm sure there will be one person in the community who will come forward and make a deal about being violated for privacy or something or another. We protect this space as we would any, and that may mean taking things seriously to the point where we have to look at logs and track users habits within our space. It does not mean however that we blab it among the community at large.
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