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graylights on Sept 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: NoPassword

5. Your "password" is being sent via an insecure protocol.

6. Your "password" being stored in the clear via cookies on your machine.

lotyrin on Sept 25, 2012 [–]

The sites which would consider using this already have email password resets and persistent session cookies, which have the same problems.

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