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Starz0r on July 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager

I get that Electron is undesirable, but what do you mean by unsecure? Also, can you list some alternatives if you don't want them building a desktop app in Electron?

self_awareness on July 11, 2018 [–]

Malware can sweep through the memory to find passwords by reading memory directly from another process' address space.

smw on July 11, 2018 | [–]

This is a risk in desktop software written in other languages and with other gui frameworks as well, no?

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