Google uploading your plain text passwords

Sat Jun 12 12:11:34 UTC 2021

Encryption != plain text, just because it's not a hash doesn't mean it's
problematic (if done correctly).  This is the exact same method that every
single password management system uses and all are far better for the
average user than trying to reuse a single password or write them down.

Scott Helms

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:53 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:42 AM César de Tassis Filho
> <ctassisf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Google does not have access to your plain-text passwords in either case.
>
> If they can display the plain text passwords to me on my screen in a
> non-Google web browser then they have access to my plain text
> passwords. Everything else is semantics.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
>
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