Google uploading your plain text passwords
William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
Fri Jun 11 16:12:46 UTC 2021
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:06 AM Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> 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 can be configured to not remember passwords at all (makes a
browser pretty useless), but it won't keep them only on the local
device. If allowed to remember passwords, it uploads them to Google.
No knob to turn sync off.
-Bill
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