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.
    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Well, hold on now, maybe Microsoft has a reasonable explanation for how they actually do secure their passwords…

      This is an expected feature of the application.

      … Never mind.

      • JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Design choices in this area involve balancing performance, usability, and security

        Nothing to do with usability since decrypting your passwords one by one is perfectly fine. So they are saying this is about performance ? Holy fuck…