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2026-05-06 07:01 UTC

@kaidenshi @KF0UNK Not really. Edge: The passwords are in memory, an attacker who can dump memory can read them. Chrome: The passwords are encrypted, but the decryption key is in memory. An attacker who can dump memory can read the decryption key and read them. Both models are vulnerable to the exact same set of attacker capabilities. From a threat-model perspective, they are not different. If your threat model is ‘administrators on the system must not see my passwords’ then you have problems that cannot be solved on conventional operating systems on conventional hardware.

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  • @kaidenshi@exquisite.social 2026-05-06 11:21

    @david_chisnall @KF0UNK I'm curious as to how Firefox does it (including forks). Do you have any insight into that? I'd assume it's similar to Chrome's approach but I really have no idea.

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