Do you trust saving CC numbers in Firefox? (feddit.it)

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I'm just scared that they're saved with reversible encryption on the disk, then malware could steal them

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If Firefox can read it from disk without a password, any other program running as your user can read it from disk without a password. But to prevent this you can encrypt your Firefox profile with a password.

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