This has got to be a case of them being completely out of touch with the average user.
I've been using web browsers for over 10 years and assumed a browser wouldn't make it this easy to find passwords.
After reading this I quickly checked and saw over 50 accounts listed all with the passwords in plain text next to them.
I guarantee each and every one of my friends that don't work in IT don't know about this - I could ask them all if I could quickly borrow there laptop to check a soccer score and find out the majority of there passwords.
What needs to be done is make people more aware of what's happening when they save a password - and perhaps a quick pop up in the bottom right coming up notifying them which passwords are saved and if they want to clear them before lending out, or leaving it unattended.
I've been using web browsers for over 10 years and assumed a browser wouldn't make it this easy to find passwords.
After reading this I quickly checked and saw over 50 accounts listed all with the passwords in plain text next to them.
I guarantee each and every one of my friends that don't work in IT don't know about this - I could ask them all if I could quickly borrow there laptop to check a soccer score and find out the majority of there passwords.
What needs to be done is make people more aware of what's happening when they save a password - and perhaps a quick pop up in the bottom right coming up notifying them which passwords are saved and if they want to clear them before lending out, or leaving it unattended.