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It's possible with the cold boot attack, highly unlikely that someone would go to that level unless they seriously wanted to know everything about you considering a keylogger or something to auto paste the clipboard would take a lot less effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've always thought I was somewhat lazy about not caring about plaintext password in RAM in WPF (or whatever) but then this guy made a super valid point...
I really think a hacker would just keylog at that point rather than trying to read your obscure program's memory for your password... especially if they have access to raw memory...
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overly secure