Do you have a Motorola KRZR? Then you might want to be more careful with your passwords….

This phone by accidental design stores passwords that you enter into your phone, even though it displays (********) as you type them in. Here is an example below of the information that was passed along to Motorola and their lack of response to this major security problem

Here’s the message sent to Moto:

Hello,

I purchased a Moto KRZR a few weeks ago. In that time I discovered a rather serious security issue. Passwords typed into a password field are being saved in the user dictionary.

For example, I visited the WAP interface of a work site. It requires me to login. The password field shows asterisks when I type in the password. Later when I go to send a text message, I started typing a word which contained the first couple letters of my password - it auto-complted my password.

The password was alpha-numeric and unique. It doesn’t even contain any dictionary words.

I have since returned the phone largely due to this issue.

Thanks.

It has been over 30 days and still no response…..I guess they don’t care, and thus why this information needed to be shared!