GOOGLE CHROME LETS OTHERS SEE YOUR PASSWORDS

Google’s Chrome browser and operating system may be revealing your secret passwords to everyone from coworkers to absolute strangers. 

THE INTELLIHUB - One of the most popular features of Chrome is its ability to store passwords. That way they pop up automatically when you go to a function like email or Facebook.

 

Elliot Kember, a software developer, discovered that anybody who clicks on the Chrome settings icon can see all of the passwords on that computer if he or she goes to the show advanced settings and passwords and forms sections.

 

The passwords are obscured, but clicking next to them causes them to appear in plain text. The text can be easily copied and emailed or seen by anybody that uses the computer. That means it would be easy for a hacker or malicious stranger that opened a computer with Chrome on it to see all of your passwords.

 

What’s really disturbing is that the head of Chrome development at Google, Justin Schuh, told The Guardian that he knows all about the flaw. Worse, Schuh said that there are no plans to correct it.

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