Security Flaw in OS X displays all keychain passwords in plain text

Posted by brenton07 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:51PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@brentonhenry/security-flaw-in-os-x-displays-all-keychain-passwords-in-plain-text-a530b246e960#.jvolr6hek

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Re:Security Flaw in OS X displays all keychain passwords in ... by neuralzen on Thursday July 07, 2016 @07:30PM (#12052750)

This has been around for a while...just lock the keychain, or change the autolock timeout. Nothing to see here, but the user preferences of someone leaning towards convenience instead of security...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717095/is-there-a-quick-a...

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Re:Security Flaw in OS X displays all keychain passwords in ... by mkj on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:41PM (#12053150)

I'm not so sure - AppleScript being able to click a SecurityAgent dialog box seems like a bug.

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