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It gives me a way to figure out my password on a strange system. Admittedly this use case is growing less common with the ubiquity of personal devices and sync.
by akkartik 11y ago
It gives me a way to figure out my password on a strange system. Admittedly this use case is growing less common with the ubiquity of personal devices and sync.
- a3n 11y agoSo as your browser stored passwords pass through (and rest at) the server, waiting to be synced to another browser or device, you have passwords "up there." Are they in the clear? Are the encrypted well enough?
- akkartik 11y agohttps://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-new-security-model https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-n... Your point is well-taken that I'm just replacing one external service with another, so the difference isn't large enough to convince anyone to switch. My original response in this thread was just to point out prior work relevant to the brainstorming above.