forwarded 394416 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357473 thanks
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: firefox > Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Please remove password obfuscation from signons.txt. It is annoying and > useless. > > Rationale copied from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/plaintextpasswords.php > > "Obscure a password. This means we do something to store the password in > some > format other than plain text, but we automatically convert it for you. This > is > security by obscurity, and is a Very Bad Thing??? in that it gives users a > false sense of security. A false sense that we (Gaim developers) believe > would > be worse to have than to let informed users deal with the password issue > themselves. Consider that a naive user might think that it is safe to share > his or her accounts.xml, because the passwords are "encrypted"." > > Upstream BTS: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357473 Thanks for the report. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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