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displaying secret key in the clear. why ever do this?
BLUF: You obfuscate it in several places. Why not all? Be consistent.
When initially logging in, the secret key is displayed in full cleartext. Researching why, I have seen some other threads w...
I guess you would not like it when I say you can even find the secret key in clear text in the database files Chrome or Firefox create for the plugin local storage. The clear text secret key vanished from the desktop app database (in old versions, it was really stored cleartext as A3-xxxxxx-yyyyy-zzzzz-... and could be easily found with an sqlite browser or just any disk editor - it's now obfuscated or encrypted), but it didn't vanish from the browser plugin database yet.
