Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

Re:Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear te... by pibaker on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:51PM (#48015497)

Agreed. I keep seeing "high priority" "vulns" that require so much system access to actually exploit that they become pointless. If an untrusted process can read your memory or run as an administrator you have already lost.

It honestly feels like more and more "security" people and businesses have less interest in actually securing systems and more in marketing themselves and their business hence the tendency to make every niche attack into a five alarm fire.

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Re:Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear te... by userbinator on Monday May 04, 2026 @08:26PM (#48016632)

Many of them also have vested interests in furthering corporate authoritarianism, which is why letting users have full control over their devices is considered a security risk to them.

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