Tim: I understand your point. I suggest two things though,

 1- support for obscuring the passwords, understanding all the
limitations that this has. Even being trivial, it would require more
than taking the disk out of the machine and using "vi" or "gedit" to
look at the password, and that has some value, even if the real value is
just improving the user perception of security. This is not a bad thing,
as long the documentation makes the limitations clear.

 2- Implement an optional "master password", like firefox. Then use it
to encrypt the passwords and URLs in the sitemanager / settings file.


I'm all for option #2. It provides a reasonable level of security to millions 
of firefox users; I would see it helping filezilla users as well.

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