[TriLUG] amazed and concerned - mailing list membership info reminders

[Zach Underwood via TriLUG]

The behavior of sending out passwords by mailman list server manager is
well documented and has been happening forever. I remember getting them
from different mailing lists over 14 years ago.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:18 PM Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>
> Wasn't this referred to, back in the day, as the "Massive Security
> Breach"
> fiasco?  Much hand-waving ensued, and finally everyone decided that it
> didn't
> really add up to anything meaningful?
>
> I did some Googling and came up with NOTHING... which makes me think
> this
> might've just been some episode I imagined many years ago.
>
> Surely, some of the long-timers here remember what I am talking about,
> perhaps with more correct details.
>
> Alan Porter
>
>
>
>
> On 2023-11-01 08:31, Mike Viscount via TriLUG wrote:
> > I've always been amazed that the monthly trilug membership list
> > reminders
> > go out ... and still go out.  I mean ... like ... really?  It seems
> > like
> > it's a monthly exercise in compromising every trilug account.  login
> > info
> > and passwords and no effort to even hide them.
> >
> > So my question is - why is it done?
>
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