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Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords


From: Anoop Ghanwani <anoop () alumni duke edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:34:05 -0700

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:51 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
wrote:


Having my email password compromised?
That's a bit of a "meh" moment.
Suddenly discovering that one password now gave access to
potentially all my financial accounts as well?
That's a wake up in the night with cold sweats moment.  :(


Thanks for articulating the issue so well.

And glad I saw this discussion because I had no idea that
if my gmail account was compromised all my financial accounts
would become accessible.

The issue is discussed quite nicely here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/174312/can-google-employees-see-my-saved-google-chrome-passwords/

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