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hannibalhorn on March 31, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: APFS encrypted plaintext password found in another...

I can confirm I found my password in my install.log. I just zero'd it out, but definitely not an ideal situation...

zf00002 on March 31, 2018 [–]

On 10.13.4, my install.log does not have my password that I can find.

hannibalhorn on March 31, 2018 | [–]

I already ran shred on the log to erase all traces, so I can't be more specific, but I know I did a fresh install (not an upgrade) of the whatever the latest High Sierra was at the time in mid-November...

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