plaintext

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One exploits routers accepting plaintext during handshakes, one exploits routers caching data in certain types of networks, etc.

From The Verge

Stanford's cyber-security researchers discovered several security flaws, including the fact that the users' unique ID numbers and the ID numbers of the Clubhouse chatrooms they created were being transmitted in plaintext and it could be possible connect IDs to specific user profiles.

From BBC

A report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found that users’ unique Clubhouse ID numbers and chatroom IDs were transmitted in plaintext, which could theoretically allow an outside observer to work out who’s talking to who on the app.

From The Verge

The SIO further discovered that users’ unique Clubhouse ID numbers —not usernames— and chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext, which would likely give Agora access to raw Clubhouse audio.

From The Verge

People not only use Dropbox for storing and managing their passwords — hopefully not in plaintext? — but also syncing their existing password manager with Dropbox, Young said.

From The Verge