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Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintext (www.heise.de)
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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

it sure can

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Relative irrelevant in a tool for downloading a browser.

[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Paywall

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Weird, I didn’t get one.