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Old 08-06-2013, 10:20 PM
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Default Browser password security
Browser passwords in Chrome and Firefox are stored as plain text. Been that way for a while, I gather, but it's getting a lot of recent media attention.

The response from Firefox and Chrome is basically, "Passwords are unsafe anyway, so what difference does it make."

I would hope/assume that shared public computers in schools and libraries, etc. have locked down their browser settings so users can't access that, but jeeze.