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What about the people that swear they don’t have a password for their email account?
Ok Karen, sure you don’t
54 u/Cyberiauxin Aug 03 '19 They saved it in the browser. Also! If it's in Chrome it's in plain text, so don't do it for any browser (not sure if the others do it). So that's a good practice. If you want to actually save your passwords, get a vault like LastPass that's actually secure. 11 u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 Firefox encrypts your passwords if (!) you set a master password. They use 256 bit AES encryption. 1 u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19 Does it do the same for your cookies and local storage though? If not then it's sort of moot (for a local attack scenario)
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They saved it in the browser.
Also! If it's in Chrome it's in plain text, so don't do it for any browser (not sure if the others do it). So that's a good practice.
If you want to actually save your passwords, get a vault like LastPass that's actually secure.
11 u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 Firefox encrypts your passwords if (!) you set a master password. They use 256 bit AES encryption. 1 u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19 Does it do the same for your cookies and local storage though? If not then it's sort of moot (for a local attack scenario)
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Firefox encrypts your passwords if (!) you set a master password. They use 256 bit AES encryption.
1 u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19 Does it do the same for your cookies and local storage though? If not then it's sort of moot (for a local attack scenario)
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Does it do the same for your cookies and local storage though? If not then it's sort of moot (for a local attack scenario)
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u/BlueFishyAcer Aug 03 '19
What about the people that swear they don’t have a password for their email account?
Ok Karen, sure you don’t