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Re:Proton.B: What this Mac malware does by eriknstr on Sunday May 14, 2017 @04:31AM (#14334797)
Because since the only way that a program can have access to information is by explicitly handing that info to the program from another program the only place you enter a password is on your login screen.
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Re:Proton.B: What this Mac malware does by gregmac on Sunday May 14, 2017 @10:15AM (#14335708)
Login password perhaps (at least plain text version of it), but account info (including cookies) in a browser for example would be accessible, as well as anything on disk.
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Re:Proton.B: What this Mac malware does by eriknstr on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:01AM (#14341195)
>anything on disk

Not if the file system is isolated per app as I said.

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