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Passwords in plain text are actually more secure because hackers expect encryption

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Had the opposite problem of this recently where a colleague was trying to access an account whose password was given to him encoded in base64. He didn't realise and he thought it was just a randomly generated string.

The decoded password was basically "password123" btw.

@matrix hackers can't download a sheet of paper either

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