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Re:Two Months with Powershell on a Unix by dijit on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:20PM (#22962759)
I just attempted to prove you wrong, but it does look like it's fixed.

So is creating secure strings.

Cool!

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Re:Two Months with Powershell on a Unix by jodrellblank on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:15PM (#22963599)
Creating secure strings isn't exactly fixed; the type exists but they aren't encrypted in memory on Linux because it doesn't have the DPAPI (Data Protection API) from Windows:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/9199

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