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diff --git a/tdejava/koala/org/trinitydesktop/koala/KPasswordDialog.java b/tdejava/koala/org/trinitydesktop/koala/KPasswordDialog.java
index 592bf288..b205d7c9 100644
--- a/tdejava/koala/org/trinitydesktop/koala/KPasswordDialog.java
+++ b/tdejava/koala/org/trinitydesktop/koala/KPasswordDialog.java
@@ -29,15 +29,6 @@ import org.trinitydesktop.qt.TQWidget;
and thus include any passwords that were in memory.
</li>
- <li>
- You should delete passwords as soon as they are not needed anymore.
- The functions getPassword() and getNewPassword() return the
- password as a String. I believe this is safer than a String. A String
- stores its characters internally as 16-bit wide values, so conversions are
- needed, both for creating the String and by using it. The temporary
- memory used for these conversion is probably not erased. This could lead
- to stray passwords in memory, even if you think you erased all of them.
- </li>
@author Geert Jansen <jansen@kde.org>
@short A password input dialog.