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A note of caution on Firefox's storage of passwords
Camino was my browser of choice for all financial sites for this type of reason, although I am trialling the 1Passwd Password Manager app now because of:
Would love to hear others recommendations for a good Password Manager across different browsers. Someone above mentioned that the Keychain is not safe? Are we saying it is hackable with time and resources (as most things are), or is there a more sinister weakness than that I should know about?
A note of caution on Firefox's storage of passwords
There's no sinister weakness, just fundamental trade-off inherent in any automatic password autofill system. If you have your bank's password stored (be it in Keychain, Firefox's storage system, wherever) and you have things configured such that when you visit your bank the password is auto-filled without your having to supply a password, then someone sitting in front of your open browser has full access to the password.
A note of caution on Firefox's storage of passwords
Glad to hear it. Indeed, my Keychain (and the Password app )are enabled by separate master passwords. |
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