Tyran,

> While that may be true of current RealVNC installations, that has not 
> always been the case with VNC.

Dieter stated that he's using VNC Personal Edition, which has always used
registry permissions to protect sensitive settings such as the obfuscated
password information.

> Regardless, if the current user can 
> read the key, the current user has full access to the clear text 
> password via SIW and likely other similar utilities.

The current user can only read the relevant keys if they are a member of the
Administrators group, in which case they have complete access to your system
anyway.

Rehards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
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