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Description of my issue:
Just a question:
How secure is the Amazon S3 secret key in the Akeeba Backup configuration, aside from it being hidden visibly by bullets?
What I'm getting at is that my web clients have superadmin access to sites I build for them, so is it impossible to hack around and reveal the key? Is it stored unencrypted in the SQL DB?
Obviously I'm hoping it's impossible. Thanks.

Nothing is impossible, would you settle for highly unlikely? In Options (upper right corner of the Control Panel screen) on the Security tab, you need to set "Use encryption" to Yes. That encrypts the configuration settings, including the S3 secret key. So it is protected by more that just the asterisks, but virtually an encryption can be broken given enough time and resources.

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