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Re:1Password sends your password in clear text across the lo... by nbadg on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:42PM (#11212416)
Particularly if someone is specifically targeting 1password, which they (almost by definition) already would be. It'd just be a single patch to the exploit and you're back in business. Well, okay, obviously that's an oversimplification, but it wouldn't do you much good regardless.
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Re:1Password sends your password in clear text across the lo... by ikeboy on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:45PM (#11212434)
But then malware must run as root.
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Re:1Password sends your password in clear text across the lo... by julie78787 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:29PM (#11213161)
Not necessarily. Malware only requires privilege if it is violating a security policy. There are a variety of attacks in which a process executing as a user is able to access resources controlled by other processes which are executing as the same user.
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