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Re: encoding scripts (so that user can't see passwords easily)?

Jim Drash schrieb: 
If someone can get physical access to the disk, then there is not a
single thing you can do to stop someone who is:

1) Knowledgeable
2) Determined
3) has time
4) is a criminal

But I could certainly stop someone who is *not* knowledgeable nor determined, and his "criminal cracking" gnowledge ends when he presses Enter after typing "grep -r password /".

Why do you think mail clients, web browsers and other software don't store the passwords in plain?



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