To be honest, I'd like to close my account on Ars. I don't post here often and I don't intend to post further. If I didn't happen to be reading my news feed today in detail I wouldn't have known you guys had been hacked. (Usually I skim through my 1000+ new articles per day news feed and usually give up reading the rest after the first 100 or so.)
I am not too happy with how you (Ars Technica) has handled this because I would expect the "standard" procedure to be to send an e-mail to everybody's registered e-mail address telling them such news and to ask them to change their password while reminding people not to click on links in e-mail to change passwords but to go to the site itself.
Can you (Ars Technica) please offer people a choice to close their accounts. I do not intend to have to spend 5+ minutes everytime a site gets hacked that I registered years ago on and change my password. I would much rather close the account to prevent future chances of my account being hijacked or "spoofed".
I don't care nor do I feel safer on whatever "celebrity" maybe trying to back you guys up on the use of phpBB or their chosen method of password encryption. Fact is, there are plenty of better encryption method they could have used and phpBB is one of the most hacked piece of off-the-shelf software.
And I also echo the opinion of some of the others here that e-mail addresses being leaked is just as bad.
I am not too happy with how you (Ars Technica) has handled this because I would expect the "standard" procedure to be to send an e-mail to everybody's registered e-mail address telling them such news and to ask them to change their password while reminding people not to click on links in e-mail to change passwords but to go to the site itself.
Can you (Ars Technica) please offer people a choice to close their accounts. I do not intend to have to spend 5+ minutes everytime a site gets hacked that I registered years ago on and change my password. I would much rather close the account to prevent future chances of my account being hijacked or "spoofed".
I don't care nor do I feel safer on whatever "celebrity" maybe trying to back you guys up on the use of phpBB or their chosen method of password encryption. Fact is, there are plenty of better encryption method they could have used and phpBB is one of the most hacked piece of off-the-shelf software.
And I also echo the opinion of some of the others here that e-mail addresses being leaked is just as bad.
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