Thread: IM, Email Passwords Are Stored as Plain Text
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slender is offline slender
2010-01-18 , 14:29
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#95
Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
This very thread!

If instead of his plain text password, Rushmore found a base64'd password, he would not have opened this thread! So you'd give your N900 to anyone, thinking your passwords are safely "encrypted", when it would have been trivial to "decrypt" them.

Since they're saved as plain text, Rushmore has panicked and deduced correctly that he does not have to give that file to anyone.
Do you know that there is different levels of security. I do know that these levels are unmeasurable`and subjective but if you really want to be safe I would probably not use computer and I would be living in small aluminium foil box in same place where air frances black box is.

If they were encrypted I would give device to SOME people. Btw. Why this file can't be read only for root user?

Actually did you know that firefoxs password safe gui was "plain text" for awhile but they changed it so that you have press button before it shows passwords behind usernames. Is this completely stupid thing to do?