FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTwin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being firedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1507arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 month agoProbably for the same reasons web browsers store them in plain text: They don‘t care.
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 month ago the same reasons web browsers store them in plain text Why one web browser stores them in plain text. Fucking Edge. Who knows about the others, but I can pretty much guarantee you that Librewolf, for example, isn’t doing that shit.
minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoFirefox and chromium browsers also store them in plain text. I know because I literally copied them from a file when setting up my password manager.
minus-squarerailwhale@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI believe Firefox (and forks) only encrypt if you have set a master password.
Probably for the same reasons web browsers store them in plain text: They don‘t care.
Why one web browser stores them in plain text. Fucking Edge.
Who knows about the others, but I can pretty much guarantee you that Librewolf, for example, isn’t doing that shit.
Firefox and chromium browsers also store them in plain text. I know because I literally copied them from a file when setting up my password manager.
I believe Firefox (and forks) only encrypt if you have set a master password.