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mintplant 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in c...

If I have a disk image or access to the physical drive, it's trivial. This means they can no longer be considered encrypted at rest.

munk-a 32 days ago | [–]

If you're on prem or able to manipulate the machine into an OS of your choosing, yes. But with purely remote access to a device the disk is pretty decently secured (even if Window's ACLs are nightmareishly convoluted).

dist-epoch 32 days ago | [–]

If your computer storage is not fully encrypted you have bigger worries than the swap file.

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