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Yes, if I wanted to know what my password is then I could paste it into Notepad and write it down on a piece of paper. I just choose not to.

And potentially malware can watch the clipboard and "paste" things to L.Ron Hubbard knows where, it's not only your roomies that might be looking over your shoulder...

But even if you're typing your password in, malware could just log your keys. If malware is on your box, the game is over.

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