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Re:Save password on chrome? Think again chrome://chrome/sett... by sourc3 on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:43AM (#4865122)
I agree with this. The entire promise of password auto-save is to save the user TIME. If the browser locked itself every couple of minutes and asked for a master password between visits, it would not help the user save TIME.

I think the author is confusing a feature exclusively created for convenience with one that would be targeting security exclusively.

PS: However, what better way to get HN traffic than a sensational title like that...

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Re:Save password on chrome? Think again chrome://chrome/sett... by Xylakant on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:46AM (#4865141)
it could for example use the system keychain on MacOS and not expose an interface. Chrome could then read the passwords from the keychain, but any user-access to the password would have to go through "keychain access" and require the users logon password to show in plain. Storage would also be encrypted, so it wouldn't be "security through obscurity" but rather a real step towards protected password storage.
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