Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Is Firefox browser's password manager safe? If not, Are there any other free safe alternatives? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you for the rec! a small doubt even though they are in plaintext, when the hackers can't log in aren't they safe tho or is it easy to hack?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most viruses now start off by scooping up all saved browser passwords automatically then sending them to a remote server. So if one of those ever goes off on your system you are at quite a risk. Especially since there are really good other options that aren't vulnerable to that