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sanitation@lemmy.radio to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago

Microsoft Edge keeps passwords in memory as plaintext, a move Microsoft insists is safe

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Microsoft Edge keeps passwords in memory as plaintext, a move Microsoft insists is safe

www.windowscentral.com

sanitation@lemmy.radio to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago
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Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worry
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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.
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    Didn’t Microsoft insist on TPMs for Win11? Isn’t the whole point of them to hold keys out of system memory?

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      Its only to safeguard their own interests not the users

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