[matthewwolfe]

You wouldn’t necessarily need to store passwords in plaintext. You could keep a password encrypted and then when a user logs in their password is sent along on a request that does the automation and then discarded at the end. Of course that would mean you could only do a read operation on the website once, or else keep the session with the site open internally.

[LastTrain]

Why are we guessing when the person that could clear it all up is lurking in these very threads.

[codingdave]

That person went really quiet once people starting truly poking at the security and legality of this idea. I'm sketched out by their communication patterns, and won't touch this with a 10 foot pole.