Quote Originally Posted by Moses View Post
Also: why DB should be encrypted when forum shows its content to anyone who open forum's page? It will looks stupid: to encrypt contend just for to decrypt it on demand and show on the page.
Aren’t you forgetting all the knickers-knotting, the tears, the tantrums, the sulks from certain members every time someone suggests that PMs are not “private”? As you’ve just said, anyone with database access can read anything at all, including PMs - which notion gives the maiden aunts and lip-pursers here the vapours (it’s their self-interest don’t you know).