Your chrome passwords for all to see

[gizmoy2k]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/10228714/Google-Chrome-flaw-exposes-user-passwords.html

Simply type chrome://settings/passwords into address bar and you can reveal any passwords, including twitter and facebook.

Quite a gaffe i think, any like minded person could hijack a friends twitter of FB account in seconds

Would think google will sort something out for this quickly but from reading around they see it as more of a feature

 

[gizmoy2k]

Well, if you ask it to save your passwords for everything, like any browser, people will be able to hijack your accounts if they have access to your pc.

Very true but at least that way you don't actually see the password,

I think this exposes a lot more, you could guess other site logins and passwords from the info you see.

Also you could sit on the password for a quite sometime before using it for malicious reasons

 

[gizmoy2k]

As the OP I just thought it would be interesting for discussion,

Having not used IE or Firefox for many years i was not aware they are all the same. I am surprised that they all allow you to view the passwords in plain text,

I do agree it is a bit of a non story and it seems poor to specifically target the article at chrome