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Honest question: If you send it on the email without storing (just sending appending the $password variable to the email body), what would be the problem?

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UncleMeat5y ago

Some email is still sent unencrypted over the web so people snooping on traffic could see it.

GoblinSlayer5y ago

Not hypothetical https://plaintextoffenders.com/post/628974096028434433/movis...

thedanbob5y ago

Any mail server the email happens to pass through is able to read/log the entire content of the message.

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