J. Weaver Jr. wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
Those who don't want a master password obviously are not interested in
securing the file containing their passwords. Perhaps someone doesn't
care if a spouse accesses secure sites using the family's passwords.
Perhaps he or she has full confidence in a firewall and anti-spyware.
Perhaps the password file doesn't contain the really important passwords.
...or perhaps someone has password or hardware protection on the _entire
computer_, sufficient to not require passwords on individual
applications (like browsers). -JW
Doesn't really matter - if one's computer can be hacked at all, one must
assume that a hacker can gain access to any file on that
machine...unless the user employs whole-disk encryption, which I
seriously doubt most home users do.
Once a hacker has your bookmarks file and the file containing your
passwords, you're open to any sort of ID theft permissible by that
combination. Your browser information is one of the best targets for a
hacker to exploit...so being able to just wipe the Master encryption key
and be able to still access that information is about the next best
thing to no protection at all...
I certainly hope that isn't the case, and is why SM wipes all passwords
out on a Master reset.
--
- Rufus
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