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Chrome, Firefox display plain-text passwords with a few clicks

Google’s Chrome browser is getting railed against for exposing plain-text passwords with just a few clicks in its Chrome browser. The feature is found in Chrome when a user selects Settings | Show advanced settings | Passwords and forms | Manage saved passwords. A developer at design and development studio Riot, Elliott Kember, first pointed out what he considers to be Chromes lax security in a blog post on Tuesday. Google’s head of Chrome security, Justin Schuh, said that things are exactly the way Google intends them to be, and that it’s not a security hole.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/08/chrome-firefox-display-plain-text-passwords-with-a-few-clicks/

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