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Shawn posts about a new secure version of the string class that is avbl in Whidbey. This is called SecureStrings and can be used to store sensitive information like passwords etc.

SecureStrings are held in encrypted memory by the CLR (using DPAPI), and are only unencrypted when they are accessed. This limits the amount of time that your string is in plaintext for an attacker to see.