c/security · by yogthos@lemmy.ml · 133d

Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintext

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-Edge-Passwords-end-up-in-memory-as-plaintext-11281576.html

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8 Comments

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 132d

Relative irrelevant in a tool for downloading a browser.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 5 pts · 132d (1 reply)

And any program running on that computer could read from that memory, right?

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 132d

it sure can

zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 133d (3 replies)

Paywall

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 133d (1 reply)

https://archive.ph/xuEqO

airikr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 132d

For privacy minded people: beware for that link since it uses reCAPTCHA.

airikr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 132d

Not if you disable JavaScript. I was able to read the article with Privacy Browser on Android with JS disabled by default. Readeck was also able to and save the whole article on my server.

read_desert@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 132d

Weird, I didn’t get one.