Google uploading your plain text passwords

Fri Jun 11 16:06:21 UTC 2021

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 Settings, Password, disable "Offer to save passwords"

Josh Luthman
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:03 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> My gmail account prompted me today to change a compromised password.
> It wasn't compromised; it was an offline system where I intentionally
> used a generic password. But in the process...
>
> It turns out that every password I allowed Chrome on Android to
> remember, it uploaded to Google. In plain text!! And it could prove it
> by displaying the plain text passwords for me on my laptop. And I
> can't turn the upload off!
>
> To the google folks on here: Are you INSANE!?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
>
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