the password may be a private variable but anything stored on the blockchain is not really private.
anyone can get the password by going to etherscan and look for the transaction hash and decode the input data.
password is not private.
etherscan
Use some other methods of storing a password.
Private functions and state variables are only visible for the contract they are defined in and not in derived contracts. In this case private doesn't mean secret/confidential
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