Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Hi,

    I use Firefox and saved its profile inside a VeraCrypt disk, inside 
a Bitlocked disk, inside a Surface3 used only for that purpose =D.
    ( Yeah that include a few physical MFA device and Shutdown instead 
of Sleeping, and yadi yada )

    So GL with Chrome =D.

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On 6/11/21 12:12 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:06 AM Josh Luthman
> <josh () imaginenetworksllc com> wrote:
> > That's wrong, you CAN turn it off.  I believe it's encrypted between Google and your Chrome browser, it says so but I 
> > haven't confirmed this myself.
> Chrome can be configured to not remember passwords at all (makes a
> browser pretty useless), but it won't keep them only on the local
> device. If allowed to remember passwords, it uploads them to Google.
> No knob to turn sync off.
>
> -Bill