[OSM-talk] Mailing list security

[Colin Smale]

On 25 November 2017 16:04:45 CET, "Éric Gillet" <gill3t.3ric+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another point : This password is not secure, but what the worst that
>could
>happen with it ? As long as one don't reuse it on other applications
>(as
>warned during registration), the only action an attacker could do would
>be
>to unsubscribe you. Not really catastrophic
...until it is hacked and thousands of passwords are stolen. If even one of those leads to something serious, I am not sure that saying "I told you so 10 years ago when you signed up" will be enough to absolve the operators of liability.

I will open a ticket as suggested.

//colin