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

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

Yes, it's well documented and happening since the Jurassic age, but
wait, there's more: Mailman list servers specifically tell you not
to use a valuable password. So just consider your Mailman activities to
be visible by all, don't put anything in an email you don't want the
whole world to see, and if you ever anything posted by others in your
name, quit the list and join under a different name with a different
(non-valuable) password.


Zach Underwood via TriLUG said on Wed, 1 Nov 2023 13:25:09 -0400

>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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