Agile Messenger and passwords
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Agile Messenger (tm)
V. AM-PPC2003-19
I don't think this topic has come up before.
Just a small thing that I believed should have been addressed by the
developers of this useful and otherwise well operating application (for me
anyway). I will
have to visit www.agilemobile.com and see if they have a feedback form.
Passwords are not encrypted and are stored in plain text visible by Resco as
well as some other aps.
It's not a huge thing but just a heads up to those that don't want their
Yahoo, hotmail etc... passwords stored that way. I have leant my PDA to
staff for work (price lists) as I don't store anything too personal on it
but while looking at a way to alter the today screen saw my password there
it was a bit of a worry. I did a search of the password in the pocket msn
and couldn't find it in the same way. I'm not worried for myself as the
percentage of people here that even know what a PDA is minimal, let alone
hacking one to extract passwords.
Brad
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(comp.security.misc) - Re: how do you manage your user names and passwords
... another media in a secure location in case the thumb drive dies or is lost so he has access to the passwords and login names. ... I do the same thing but mine is stored on my PDA using the Memo feature, both on the laptop's program and within the actual PDA, both password protected. ... Currently only 202 logon names and passwords and counting. ... The same can be accomplished from within a Word document on a thumb drive ...
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... user names and passwords on a Windows XP computer? ... I'm looking for an application that will store the data in a way that ... That was handy because if I ever lost my PDA, ... I could see that being very handy when I travel and then need to ...
(comp.lang.java.programmer) - Re: [OT] Secure storage
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(comp.lang.java.programmer) - Re: [Full-disclosure] Google Talk cleartext credentials in processmemory
... operating system already presents a means to protect against one process snooping on the other, as has already been pointed out elsewhere in this thread. ... Since application developers are lazy they're going to expose those passwords to every tom, dick and harry who gains access. ... The longer an attacker has to wait for something the greater the ...
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