<div dir="ltr"><div>I just did a very quick check of this, Chrome, FireFox and safari all have this data stored in a reversible fashion on both Mac and Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>safari at least prompts you for the user login to show this data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>IE seems to not allow you to retrieve the password without 3rd party utilities.</div><div><br></div><div>This certainly makes me review my personal choices of full dis centryption and physical security of my computer.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Ed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plug@0x1b.com" target="_blank">plug@0x1b.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://blog.elliottkember.com/chromes-insane-password-security-strategy" target="_blank">http://blog.elliottkember.com/chromes-insane-password-security-strategy</a><br>
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is Chrome the new attack vector to your stored passwords in other<br>
browsers? would a master password protect against this kind of slurp?<br>
Han's presentation at the last East Side PLUG meeting was really on<br>
point - thx<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.<br><br>Stephen<br>
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