BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 13 days agoEdge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and Microsoft says it's "by design"www.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkEdge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and Microsoft says it's "by design"www.neowin.netBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square9linkfedilinkfile-text
Edge stores passwords in plaintext memory at startup; a tool has been released to test against the flaw.
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoYep, and at that point they will be in memory until a reasonable time to clean up. But decrypting the whole password database and leaving it there forever seems needlessly unsafe.
Yep, and at that point they will be in memory until a reasonable time to clean up. But decrypting the whole password database and leaving it there forever seems needlessly unsafe.