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Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintext (www.heise.de)
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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Relative irrelevant in a tool for downloading a browser.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

it sure can

[-] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Paywall

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

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 points 3 weeks ago

Weird, I didn’t get one.

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