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Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worry
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Well, hold on now, maybe Microsoft has a reasonable explanation for how they actually do secure their passwords...
... Never mind.
Nothing to do with usability since decrypting your passwords one by one is perfectly fine. So they are saying this is about performance ? Holy fuck...
They're just doing what Copilot told them to!