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This is hardly scary at all to me because if you're on my machine it's most likely game over. If you can read process memory you can just sit there until I use
by XorNot 3y ago
This is hardly scary at all to me because if you're on my machine it's most likely game over. If you can read process memory you can just sit there until I use an interesting password copied into the clipboard.
This is also the reason you always use full disk encryption: because you don't know what sensitive content might get sprayed into your files.
- dendriti 3y agoIf you are copying your passwords into the clipboard, you've already failed at using a password manager. Might as well just use an unencrypted text file.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoDepends on the threat. If you may have a keylogger than copying may bypass that. KeePass 2 can even spilt its auto typing between the keyboard and clipboard so neither has the whole secret.
- keybored 3y agoI tried to do something more structured by enabling auto-typing or something (in KeepassX (not XC)). First thing I wound up doing was to auto-type the password into the next application, which was a chat program.
- zaphirplane 3y agoHow about Taking a computer to a repair shop. The staff will have access to your computer and passwords
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- XorNot 3y agoYou are simply explaining why you don't give people your disk encryption password. It's a lot of access, and just about impossible to be sure there's not substantial valuable content in free space or swap on disk.
- zaphirplane 3y agoI’m saying if passwords are available to someone with physical access to a person’s computer, there are many situations when that physical access is had without the owner realizing their passwords are at risk