I was surprised to find that in a local Ninox database file, removing a string like

s:{"version":"PROTECTED.1","hash":...}

seems to remove the password protection.

This was unexpected, as I assumed the protection involved real encryption and would be relatively secure.

I also noticed this doesn’t seem to work in the cloud version.

Is this behavior intentional? Is local password protection only meant as a basic access restriction rather than real security?

Thanks!