Re: [dvd-discuss] Fwd: Bush taps Clarke as CyberdefenseChief

["D. C. Sessions" <dcs(at)lumbercartel.com>]

On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:02, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> ...
> > 
> > Microsoft Passport stores login and password information in plain
> > text on the user's hard drive.
> > 
> ...
> 
> Plain text?  Somehow I had missed hearing that
> about Passport (I had heard other problems).  
> 
> I can't believe that MSoft messed up to >that<
> extent!

After a bit of further research, it seems that it's stored encrypted
but passed through the APIs in clear.

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