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Microsoft backpedals: Edge to stop loading passwords into memory (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Microsoft is updating the Edge web browser to ensure it no longer loads saved passwords into process memory in clear text at startup after previously stating it was "by design." [...]

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

Someone with a brain got into the meeting room with the right person, finally.

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[–] drone678@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

Someone at Microsoft started a new chat window with co-pilot and got a different answer this time.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

Backpedals? That is a vibecoding-level mistake that would have sat the Microsoft CEO back in front of the DOJ back in the 1990s.

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[+] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

i want to be clear whats going on here. every other password manager loads the password you are requesting (they have to)... edge, on startup, loaded every single password in memory to be accessed. every.. single.. one.