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		zacharydanger on May 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords ... Firefox stores your passwords in plaintext unless you specify a master password (that has to be entered each time you open Firefox) to encrypt them.

tjmc on May 5, 2009 [–]

Problem is that a simple keylogger could get that too...

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