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Security@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintext

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Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintext

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Security@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

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The Edge password manager appears secure: encrypted storage, secured by Windows Hello. But plaintext is stored in memory.

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Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml )
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Relative irrelevant in a tool for downloading a browser.
OwOarchist ( OwOarchist@pawb.social ) BannedBanned
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And any program running on that computer could read from that memory, right?
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  it sure can
read_desert ( read_desert@lemmy.ml )
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Weird, I didn’t get one.