Accounts.xml stores passwords in plain text.

[Daniel Atallah]

On Dec 17, 2007 6:37 PM, Andreas Monitzer <pidgin at monitzer.com> wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2007, at 20:43, Daniel Atallah wrote:
>
> > This isn't entirely true. I'm not aware of any major services that
> > send plaintext or plaintext equivalent passwords over the wire.
>
> Then you're not aware of ICQ.


I guess I wasn't aware that we had fallen back to the old ICQ auth.

It is plain text equivalent, but will not necessarily reveal the actual
password.

-D
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