Good point you made. Which leads to the idea of Open Source or Secret Sauce, -Which?
You can actually duplicate the Live CD by compiling the source finds and creating
all the binary files. You can read the source code and see if there is anything odd.
Now with Windows we just have to guess as to what is in the Sauce.
For now, I think I will store my passwords on index card and keep in a desk drawer.
(For security, I will not tell which desk and which drawer, that will slow them down.)
;)