https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166886
Chrome security guy takes it up with the Mashable article author. Chrome guy: This is what users expect! They expect to see their passwords in plain text. You are expecting us to provide them with a false sense of security. um... alrighty then... yrs, SN On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Kyle Maxwell <ky...@xwell.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen > <cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Kyle Maxwell <ky...@xwell.org> wrote: > >> > >> Must every app data store reinvent the wheel rather than use operating > >> system functionality? > >> > > > > Agree in theory, but do all operating systems have standard data stores > that > > are encrypted with the user's password? They don't. > > Understood and point taken - but in general I'd rather point users > towards better password management than the browser in any case, > whether that's something like Lastpass / Keepass or something else > entirely. *insert pointless rant about how passwords are a terribly > broken model in the first place* > > -- > @kylemaxwell > -- > Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too > many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing > moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com
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