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Comment by revorad | Hacker News Reader

WARNING: DON'T SIGN UP.

I signed up, and as makethetick pointed out, they sent me the plaintext password via email. I decided to close my account but first thought I should change the password. The change password form just spits error alerts showing the underlying html code.

I can't trust these guys with ANYTHING.

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I was just going to post this. I signed up, activated my account, and then immediately received my password in plaintext! What are these guys thinking? Way to subvert trust...

It's because of sites like this that I started using unique passwords for every new login. Chrome + OSX Keychain make this reasonably easy now. Looking forward to the day when the browser will just automatically generate one for me.

Of course, I'd not trust backing up my data to a site that fails so miserably at basic security.

  > Looking forward to the day when the browser will just automatically generate one for me.

Well, almost: https://www.pwdhash.com/

I use pwdhash for pretty much everything. It's great, but it can be a pain for signing into services on an application or device that doesn't support automatic expansion.

If you need more than Dropbox's 2GB for free, SkyDrive offers 25GB. It's not as usable, though.

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