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Re:Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear te... by avereveard on Monday May 04, 2026 @06:36PM (#48015865)
It's surprisingly hard to do the compiler or cpu may see a write without a read and optimize it away. Windows has a SecureZeroMemory and a few other barrier primitives but not all languages reach to it
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