Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over

[Christopher Browne]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jose <jtc-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> how would you encrypt firefox passwords?

It's in the menus there somewhere :-).

I'm not certain how useful it is to do so.

On the one hand, it's practical to try to fairly seriously secure
information used by an inherently interactive process (e.g. - web
browser) and, from a user's perspective, this isn't difficult to
manage the way it is for services.  (Contrast with trying to do this
with a DBMS, where the service is expected to start up automatically
at boot time...  If you had to write out the secure credentials
somewhere that the boot process can get at them, then security has
"poof!" evaporated...)

On the other hand, this shoves the vulnerability into a single place
that attackers can consider quite well documented, and if the password
to those passwords gets out, that's big bad mojo.  So it certainly
means that the Firefox folk need to work hard to "harden" that one
interface.
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