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

Thu Nov 2 09:29:24 EDT 2023

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 6:56 PM Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
      Are you saying I cannot make all my passwords match my luggage's (12345)?
>
> 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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