JackbyDev comments on Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worry

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is sort of like saying "I leave my valuables in plain sight by my door because it has a lock on it and door locks are trustworthy." I'm not super into cyber security and stuff but it seems like one of the most common problems is programs managing to get access to memory they shouldn't have access to. It seems to happen all the time! Just like many locks for you door are trash.

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[–] quack@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

Defense in depth is a concept they teach you in cybersecurity 101. But that's expensive and time consuming, so you end up with shit like this.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago*

It’s ridiculous. It presupposes that cybersecurity doesn’t value or employ defense in depth. Completely untrue.

Look at the attack vector researchers were trying to solve when they created OAuth2.0 w/ PKCE.

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[+] jama211@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 6 months ago

I extracted IE6 passwords from hundreds of people when I was 13, for fun. If passwords are now being stored plaintext again, they are going to leak. Some of the people who steal those passwords won't be doing it just for fun.