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Re:The quest for a family-friendly password manager by halJordan on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:41PM (#34223359)
Chrome uses the host OS's cryptographic apis (ie dpapi on Windows). Which in turn relies usually on the user's pin/password.
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Re:The quest for a family-friendly password manager by intuxikated on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:15PM (#34234344)
This is the main reason to avoid browser based password managers, just plugin a usb with portable firefox and 'import' the passwords into firefox If the user is logged into the PC, everything is available to extract
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