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Discussion on: Would you send a plain text password from your website to the server over a secure connection?

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Adrian B.G.

I'm not up to date to the new best practices, I'm using OAuth since forever, I think user/password is so antique.

A new threat I keep seeing is the Browser extension, this is one reason I would try to "hide" the password before sending, so it will not be stored in Analytics/Trackings by an extension.

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Muhamed G

So extensions can access a secured request sent from the website? including the body/ headers ..etc.?

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Adrian B.G.

I do not know the specifics yet, but there are many red flags, like Clipboard permissions are low priority on Chrome

Edge and Firefox doesn't even have the extensions permission system.

This week I caught an emoji extension spying which website I use.

Intercept HTTP requests in Firefox

get access to request headers and bodies, and response headers
cancel and redirect requests
modify request and response headers

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Muhamed G

Interesting!