[liberationtech] And now for some completely different flame... Chrome + password management

Kyle Maxwell kylem at xwell.org
Thu Aug 8 09:05:27 PDT 2013


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen
<cryptography at patrickmylund.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Kyle Maxwell <kylem at xwell.org> wrote:
>>
>> Must every app data store reinvent the wheel rather than use operating
>> system functionality?
>>
>
> Agree in theory, but do all operating systems have standard data stores that
> are encrypted with the user's password? They don't.

Understood and point taken - but in general I'd rather point users
towards better password management than the browser in any case,
whether that's something like Lastpass / Keepass or something else
entirely. *insert pointless rant about how passwords are a terribly
broken model in the first place*

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@kylemaxwell



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