A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
Don’t overthink the metaphor. These things are fragile and fall apart. The “door with a lock” is the “guarantee” (wink wink) that the operating system won’t let programs see memory they shouldn’t be allowed to. Putting your valuables in a safe instead of sitting in the floor would be encrypting the passwords in memory in the metaphor.
I extracted IE6 passwords from hundreds of people when I was 13, for fun. If passwords are now being stored plaintext again, they are going to leak. Some of the people who steal those passwords won’t be doing it just for fun.
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Don’t overthink the metaphor. These things are fragile and fall apart. The “door with a lock” is the “guarantee” (wink wink) that the operating system won’t let programs see memory they shouldn’t be allowed to. Putting your valuables in a safe instead of sitting in the floor would be encrypting the passwords in memory in the metaphor.
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I extracted IE6 passwords from hundreds of people when I was 13, for fun. If passwords are now being stored plaintext again, they are going to leak. Some of the people who steal those passwords won’t be doing it just for fun.
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