Re:Chrome breaks the Web
by Manishearth on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:38PM
(#15640680)
> because the client's corporate IT only cared about ticking all the boxes on a security conformance report.
Yeah, I'm aware it used to be in conformance stuff (and probably still is in many cases). Super annoying when that happens :)
I hereby confess to being guilty of adding autocomplete="off" to a login form, because the client's corporate IT only cared about ticking all the boxes on a security conformance report. We have tried to fight this and some other rules (e.g. log the user out after 20mins), because this was quite a simple website, but the rules were strict like it was online banking at the very least.
Now OWASP has changed their mind, but the damage has been done.
> Since early 2014 most major browsers will override any use of autocomplete="off" with regards to password forms and as a result previous checks for this are not required and recommendations should not commonly be given for disabling this feature. [1]
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Vulnerable_Remem...