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

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

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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