Posted by Justin Reynolds on September 11, 2006 at 15:24:41:
In Reply to: Re: EmailPtr now can authenticate!! posted by Barbara Brazil on September 11, 2006 at 07:39:41:
..doesn't that equate to hard coding your email address/password in the program? Sounds like it'd be a real pain when the password changes.
Perhaps worse -- unless you write in your own encryption in the program, the data can be retrieved easily by using "strings". ( a standard Unix program; ported to Windows here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Strings.htm )
Sounds like "security through obscurity" to me.