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Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords
From: Jan Schaumann via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:37:34 -0400
William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
It turns out that every password I allowed Chrome on Android to remember, it uploaded to Google. In plain text!!
Chrome does not store your passwords in plain text. It encrypts them locally, on e.g. macOS using, I think, a secret stored in the keychain under "Chrome Safe Storage", on Windows using a similar API and secret probably unlocked via your login credentials. If you use your favorite internet search engine to look for "how does Chrome store passwords", you'll find the local sqlite file and more detailed explanations. -Jan
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