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Reading saved firefox passwords via cli and other woes

smac89 on September 16, 2022

I was recently working from home and needed a saved password from Firefox on my dev machine at work. Seeing as the only connection I had with the r...
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Iain Samuel McLean Elder

This article makes a great counterpoint to Tavis Ormandy's analysis of the browser integration features of dedicated password managers. He concluded that it was safer to use the browser's built-in manager for auto-completion.

You have shown that it is easy to use the Firefox's own manager in an unsafe way as well! Thanks for the technical analysis.