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#1 2012-05-07 14:07:13
Password required upon account deletion
In the Privacy Policy, it says you must email the ST with an account name, email address and date of birth to have your account deleted. However, many people have siblings/friends that may know your date of birth and email address. If the password was required, then it would be more secure.
The only issue we could take into account is about parents not knowing our passwords.
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#2 2012-05-07 14:32:45
- RedRocker227
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Re: Password required upon account deletion
Why does it matter if they know your email address or date of birth? If they don't know your password, which they shouldn't, you're safe.
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#4 2012-05-07 16:07:36
- JMCREATIONS
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Re: Password required upon account deletion
i wish you could export a project as a application
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#6 2012-05-07 17:02:43
- RedRocker227
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Re: Password required upon account deletion
Oh sorry, I misunderstood.
They're not really your friends if their idea of a joke is to do that, but anyway, sending your password through email wouldn't work because 1) there's a slight chance you'd send the email to the wrong address, giving some random dude all your information, and 2) they don't know your password anyway, it's hashed.
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#7 2012-05-07 20:29:29
Re: Password required upon account deletion
To my opinion, I don't think we should have to delete all of our projects before we quit.
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#8 2012-05-07 22:30:30
- veggieman001
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Re: Password required upon account deletion
RedRocker227 wrote:
Oh sorry, I misunderstood.
They're not really your friends if their idea of a joke is to do that, but anyway, sending your password through email wouldn't work because 1) there's a slight chance you'd send the email to the wrong address, giving some random dude all your information, and 2) they don't know your password anyway, it's hashed.
They could hash the password you give them and then compare hashes.
Anyways, that's not really safe. It would be better if in 2.0 there was some sort of button that required you to reenter your password or something.
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#10 2012-05-08 11:11:42
- RedRocker227
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Re: Password required upon account deletion
The simple answer would just be to say "No deleting your account" though. I mean seriously, I can't think of any valid reason why you'd want to delete it. You never know, you may want to come back to Scratch in a year's time. It wouldn't be unreasonable to make a new rule saying no deleting your account.
But, since that's not really what the suggestion's about, I guess I'd better say something related too. It would be better if there was a "Delete account" button on your profile page, and it required a password. It'd save the Scratch Team a lot of time too. They have it on YouTube.
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