I had a parked domain with a registrar and the registrar had grown increasingly expensive and behind the competition over the years. Eventually I decided to move my domain. After a five step process that initially blocked me and eventually required me to speak to an agent they provided me with the auth code to transfer my domain. The code provided was the login password for my account.
(2019) fyi<p>...<p>I tried doing a search to see if Virgin Media fixed the error of their ways over the last two and a half years, but instead it looks like they've doubled-down on their ineptness (five days ago):<p>> the ISP's email account policy wouldn't allow him to set a password longer than 10 characters; nor would it allow him to add two-factor authentication (2FA); the first character had to be a letter; and non-alphanumeric characters weren't allowed.<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/virgin_media_email_password_security/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/virgin_media_email_pa...</a>
I'm seeing some people miss the point here, so just to clarify: the part of this that's supposed to be ridiculous isn't the fact that they're deeming postal mail to be secure, but the fact that they're storing passwords in plaintext in their <i>database</i> (and also the fact that they completely miss the nature of this very issue in their reply about postal mail).<p>I think the title should also be edited to make this clear.
How do you run a major corporate Twitter and not realise audience is in various countries and thus laws.<p>Esp for a UK group - the threshold for getting into trouble in UK for opening mail is quite high legally