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@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ Invoke ant with the following command line:
 <pre>
     ant -Dusername=me -Dpassword=mypassword target1 target2
 </pre>
+which trades hard coded passwords for the possibility that any other
+user tracing processes on the machine running Ant (or reading your
+command shell's history) may now read the password.
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