'Big Honking Security Hole' or something else?

[Anthony Papillion]

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So, tonight I've been poking around my system and was looking around in
the Password and Encryption Keys application.  I've stored a few website
logins and I notice they are sitting there IN PLAIN TEXT and very readable!

While I grant that accessing this information would probably require
physical access to the machine (though, maybe, SSH would allow access to
it too), isn't this a problem?  The fact that usernames and passwords
are just sitting there in clear text?

Is there something I'm not understanding?

Thanks,
Anthony
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