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Posts: 105 | Thanked: 45 times | Joined on Nov 2009 @ Wellington, New Zealand
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I don't know if this has been found and discussed, or if this is the right place to bring it up, but this is something I just noticed...

I thought I would flash my N900, start fresh, and have done so...
One of the tools I used was the default N900 'Backup' app...

Brilliant app, restored everything...
- Contacts completely restored, including additional IM details
- Apps, remembered list, downloaded and installed
- Desktop, exactly how it was
- Website favorites
- RSS feeds
- System preferences
- Email an IM accounts
- Website logins and passwords

But then I thought, sooooo the backup app saved all my accounts and passwords then...
I had a look inside the 'backup' folder, had a look in a couple files, an sure enough, you can find and read files that include logins and passwords!

I did not look through them all, but for one example is:
places.sqlite
Which is located in the backups\Backup\settings.zip\Root\home\user\.mozill a\microb folder.

Does the community know about this?
It should not be this easy to find accounts logins and passwords.

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