Re:Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text
by teoruiz on Saturday July 23, 2011 @01:06PM
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You just have to revoke the "per application" password you used on your phone.
My iPad 2 was recently stolen (sad face) and I just had to revoke the different passwords I used for the different apps (Reeder, Mail, Safari, etc.).
All google has to do is to make sure that you cannot login using that same password from two concurrent sessions. So if your phone is stolen: you revoke the android-specific password; if your db is phished or acquired, google will revoke the android-specific password once the attackers tries to use it.