[Pidgin] #1235: passwords in plaintext are no way "more secure" than obscured passwords

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#1235: passwords in plaintext are no way "more secure" than obscured passwords
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 Reporter:  johnkaplantech  |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new             |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)    |    Version:  2.0   
 Keywords:                  |    Pending:  0     
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 Sorry but your wiki page on this is totally unconvincing.

 If everyone in the world was a UNIX hacker, then I would agree with you,
 but face it, there aren't that many of you compared to the number of
 identity thieves.

 Just a plain obscurity scheme where you hard code some key and use simple
 encryption to write out the password is VASTLY superior to plaintext. I
 don't care about superhackers and I don't care about the NSA and I'm not
 lulled into any "false sense of security." I wouldn't share an accounts
 file with anyone anyway. If someone could get to my accounts file, knew
 what they were doing and had to take another step to decrypt the password,
 oh well. The way it is, any idiot can get the password without even taking
 an extra step. Nothing lost, everything gained.

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