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rsjsouza:
Once I was sent an unwarranted PM from a user and he decided it was a good idea to demand I took down a post of mine. I brought this to the mods and they mentioned having no access to PMs. I wonder if they could access if they tried or perhaps they took the very sane route and deliberately decided to be better off without knowing.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 26, 2020, 11:03:57 pm ---Once I was sent an unwarranted PM from a user and he decided it was a good idea to demand I took down a post of mine. I brought this to the mods and they mentioned having no access to PMs. I wonder if they could access if they tried or perhaps they took the very sane route and deliberately decided to be better off without knowing.
--- End quote ---

We do not have access to PM's or passwords. Everything else, yes.
Although I don't believe messages are actually encrypted in the database, it's just that the SMF software has no ability for admins to read them. So I guess in theory it's possible to read PM's if you search the database manually and extract the text.
Brumby:
What Dave said - and you would need to have some understanding of the database architecture to do it.  Also, there would be no formatting as such, so that could be an extra challenge.

In short, while able to be done, it can be a right pain - and those of us (that are worth anything) who have that sort of access, hold such privilege to a high standard and would not travel down that path easily.  The people I see running things at EEVblog are ones I see as being of this calibre.

Passwords are a different kettle of fish.  They are set up to make sniffing them out pretty much impossible.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Brumby on July 27, 2020, 03:01:48 am ---What Dave said - and you would need to have some understanding of the database architecture to do it.  Also, there would be no formatting as such, so that could be an extra challenge.
In short, while able to be done, it can be a right pain - and those of us (that are worth anything) who have that sort of access, hold such privilege to a high standard and would not travel down that path easily.  The people I see running things at EEVblog are ones I see as being of this calibre.
--- End quote ---

I don't even have access to the database. Well, technically I do, but it requires some command line access thing that gnif uses, as the easier to use cpanel server doesn't handle the forum database, it's on a different server.
Brumby:
So there's two reasons why people shouldn't be concerned about the privacy of their PMs...

 (a) It's not the right thing to do
 (b) It's too freaking involved
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