Microsoft Edge imports other browsers’ passwords

AskWoody ^ | 12 July 2021 | Brian Livingston

[ShadowAce]

[Sirius Lee]

Import, export, what’s the difference?

[A_Former_Democrat]

I am curious what experiences anyone here has with password managers and can make any recommendations

How to use them and whether I should keep a record of my regular passwords anyway or do they become obsolete? Also how to manage them across devices

[VastRWCon]

LastPass

[a fool in paradise]

Whether they ASK or not is of little matter when it is being revealed that software CAN read your login credentials and saved passwords. That's the big takeaway. If they can do it, how possible is it for others to (without asking)?

[Keen-Minded]

You should never store your passwords on a PC!
Use a thumb drive/Memory stick to store and edit them.

[Pollard]

If I go to facebook, firefox offers to sign me in with email and saved password as my wife or daughter, neither of who have ever been on this PC.

[ConservativeInPA]

My Microsoft browser gets used once. That is when I download a different browser.

[Tell It Right]

I made my own encryption/decryption text editor program to store my passwords. Not saying my stuff is the kind of thing you want protecting our nuclear arsenal. But it being made from scratch makes it untouchable by the hack tools meant to hack into stuff that’s on many people’s computers.

[Texas Fossil]

Microsoft sucks.

Microsoft Edge, sucks more.

Bill Gates interviewed?

Is the Vaccine Safe? Bill Gates’s answer??
https://media.8kun.top/file_store/23e87634e3fc57457c6af9af6b396b0b01a32992fb0bbfbb669a7c78d9612846.mp4

NOW, are you convinced?

[Texas Fossil]

The penguins gif is GREAT!

Thank you.

[ETCM]

I was using Avast Passwords, but they don’t have a family version and seem to be discontinuing the product. They were also caught selling user data.

So, I switched to LastPass. It allows me to share some passwords, gives family members separate accounts and covers 6 devices: my PC, wife’s PC, shared laptop, tablet and both of our phones. They have a 30 day trial, then it’s $48/Yr. Export a copy of your password file once every few months and encrypt it or put it in your safe so you have a backup.

I would never trust a browser to store my passwords. Apple, maybe. Google? Microsoft? NFW. I would also not trust a “free” option. As they say, when something is “free”, YOU are the product.

[phoneman08]

I just let google recommend and store passwords for my phones and laptops for most sites. Except for financials which I simply write down and do not store.

Email account passwords are changed every month manually.

[PAR35]

After Microsoft promised that they would abandon my Win7 machine to its fate, and the deadlines passed, they pushed an update that included Edge. So my Edge-free computer (which had 5 other browsers for various purposes, and didn’t need another) was suddenly infected with Edge.

[grey_whiskers]

Yikes.

[gattaca]

bmp

[Fresh Wind]

I used to use Dashlane, but I discovered it was inserting garbage javascript code into edit boxes on a webpage. Totally unacceptable, it’s a known problem yet they won’t fix it.

I am using Bitwarden, and I like it.

[newzjunkey]

Firefox and Chrome which Edge is based on are all open source so why wouldn’t they be able to import credentials from each other?

[Yo-Yo]

The solution is to install a serious password manager

I suppose the real question is how do you trust the password manager you've chosen to use?

It would be the honeypot of all honeypots for someone like the CIA or NSA to offer a password manager software app, then be able to create a global database of usernames and passwords for its own internal use.

I mean, its not as if the CIA hasn't done this sort of thing in the past.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/12/cia-secretly-bought-global-encryption-provider-built-backdoors-spied-on-100-foreign-governments/?sh=261053ef580a