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You're right usernames aren't considered privileged, but the list of services and associated usernames is not the kind of information I would want to necessarily make public. The names alone would be more revealing that I care to share.

Yeah, 'pass | grep foo' would work for search. I missed the default behaviour.



It's not as if you're putting the names on the internet. They're still on your hard drive, beside your non-encrypted web browser session and history. For this kind of protection, even though it's leaked in a million places (unencrypted SMTP connections between mail servers when you receive the 'welcome to funworld' email, for example), there's disk encryption.




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