http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2006/11/01/securestring-redux.aspxA few times over the last couple of days discussion about a tool on the Internet which can attach to your process and dump out the contents of your SecureStrings has come up. If this tool can exist, then what benefit does SecureString really provide?en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2006/11/01/securestring-redux.aspx#942532Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:50:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:942532Ian Griffiths<p>So, any idea why WPF's PasswordBox class changed its Password property from being a SecureString into a normal string?</p> <p>(The documentation for that property is a bit confused right now - they left in a lot of stuff back from when it used to be a SecureString. I reported the problem, and the doc team tell it's locked down for RTM but will be fixed in the first post-RTM doc update.)</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2006/11/01/securestring-redux.aspx#943128Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:54:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:943128shawnfa<p>Nope, I'm not sure why they changed their text box.</p> <p>-Shawn</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2006/11/01/securestring-redux.aspx#1088675Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:54:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1088675fred<p>Maybe they changed it to string for compatibility with Compact Framework, which doesn't support SecureString?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2006/11/01/securestring-redux.aspx#1913367Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:04:18 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1913367alik levin's<p>SecureString Class &quot;Represents text that should be kept confidential. The text is encrypted for privacy</p>