Accounts.xml stores passwords in plain text.

[Daniel Atallah]

On Dec 17, 2007 2:35 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:

> Further, most chat protocols themselves don't encrypt
> your passwords during transit, so encrypting them on the disk won't do
> any good.


This isn't entirely true. I'm not aware of any major services that send
plaintext or plaintext equivalent passwords over the wire.

-D
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