Google uploading your plain text passwords

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Fri Jun 11 20:59:45 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 1:05 PM César de Tassis Filho
<ctassisf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Google uses your Google Account's password to encrypt passwords synced to the cloud. That is why passwords saved on Android and synced to the cloud can be read elsewhere (including passwords.google.com).
>
> As I mentioned before, if you want to avoid this behavior Google offers you a way to use a different sync passphrase (which inhibits access to passwords.google.com and also disables other features). Instructions here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139#passphrase

Hi César ,

This would be fine had I intended this behavior. That it magically
happened because I told my phone it could sync my gmail is very very
disturbing.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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