[Administration] Privacy of "private" messages

[Volker Pittlik]

Testing an automatic backup tool I discovered by random that all "private" messages are stored in clear text in the database and can be read by me. Looking around at the phpBB.com forum I found that this is a well known issue. This "feature" can't be disabled except by disabling private messaging at all.

Therefore I suggest to use email for really confident messages and delete private messages from the server as soon as possible (don't forget the outbox and sentbox). You can download and save the important ones to you local harddrive. The Readme posting (http://wbforum.volker-pittlik.name/viewtopic.php?t=210) has been updated.

Volker