The Vault That Stays Open: Microsoft Edge

Not in the Brief, Episode 02 Open Microsoft Edge. The browser silently decrypts every password it has ever saved for you, and keeps the entire collection in process memory, in cleartext, for as long as the browser is running. The credentials for the site you visit today are decrypted; so are the credentials for the site you have not visited since 2021. Microsoft's response, when this was reported by the security community, was that the behaviour is intentional, and that the design "balances perf