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Re:A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer by carterage on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:25PM (#17863045)
So... fundamentally, encrypting data on the very same machine that retains the related keys, is tantamount to simply encoding the data in plaintext form without any real protection, yes?
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Re:A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer by buckminster on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:46PM (#17863201)
It's slightly better than that. You can't decrypt the data when the user isn't logged in.
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Re:A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer by wiz21c on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:19AM (#17866617)
bah, if one can install a password stealing program, then he can as well install a key logger. With both of those, you become virtually transparent.
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