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IM, Email Passwords Are Stored as Plain Text
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zwer
2010-01-18 , 13:42
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Asterisks on password entry (or even unixesque blind password entry) exists purely because someone might be looking over your shoulder - on my home PC I'd pretty much like an option to remove them... On a mobile device those are useful because you cannot control your environment and you never know who is looking over your shoulder.
Password storage is a whole different thing - it exists because of convenience (not having to type passwords whenever you want to connect to some service). If you want to implement some security measures there - you have to give up on the convenience, as simple as that.
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