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minus-squareVeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·20 hours agoIf you can autofill passwords without authenticating in some way, they are probably either stored in plaintext, or encrypted with a key that is stored in plaintext. Cause, like, how is it supposed to magically encrypt it.
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoThat’s how computers work, dummy. Magic.
If you can autofill passwords without authenticating in some way, they are probably either stored in plaintext, or encrypted with a key that is stored in plaintext. Cause, like, how is it supposed to magically encrypt it.
That’s how computers work, dummy. Magic.