Google uploading your plain text passwords

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Fri Jun 11 16:21:31 UTC 2021


Disable "auto sign-in" and "Save and fill addresses" and there's more for
payment methods, too.

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

> 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
>
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
>
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