Thread: IM, Email Passwords Are Stored as Plain Text
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2010-01-18 , 13:12
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#61
Originally Posted by GameboyRMH View Post
Seriously, it's about 3 more lines of code to encrypt it!
... and about 3 seconds more to decrypt it, so nothing is gained security-wise...

Unless you implement strong encryption and a master password that you will always need to enter when some of the services need to read a password from that file.
 

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