> All password managers store plain text passwords. That's literally a requirement for them to work at all.
> Chrome encrypts the password in the SQLite database[0] using Windows' CryptProtectData() API
If its encrypted, then its not plaintext. Its ciphertext. In infosec lingo plaintext specifically refers to the unencrypted and otherwise unaltered original information.
Seeing as the parent comment was in reply to an assertion that Chrome stores plaintext passwords, I think it was assumed that the assertion intended to mean "Chrome has access to your plaintext passwords", otherwise the reply would simply have been "No, you're wrong".
> Chrome encrypts the password in the SQLite database[0] using Windows' CryptProtectData() API
If its encrypted, then its not plaintext. Its ciphertext. In infosec lingo plaintext specifically refers to the unencrypted and otherwise unaltered original information.