After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.

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This approach to public debt is well established in common law history, and all of the debates by both federalist and anti-federalist writers assume the same basic understanding as the plain text of the Constitution.

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All risk being plundered by attackers as the information was held in plain text.

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Messaging apps, known as "over-the-top" apps because consumers don't pay carriers directly for the services, typically go beyond plain-vanilla text messaging with features such as voice notes, camera applications, access to games and virtual stickers that are popular among teens and young adults.

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Writing a plain text document like this one isn't the same as creating a large, nuanced spreadsheet.

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"The text of the Clean Air Act makes plain that Congress intended it as a measure to 'clean' the air of pollutants, not to alter the overall composition of the Earth's atmosphere, " argues the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an auto industry lobbying group, in a brief.

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