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As an IT professional and tech trainer I do agree with Justin. There is a lot of general education that does need to go on with the public to make them understand this. If Chrome artificially lulled users into a false sense of security it would be just as bad. It's like places that put up fake video cameras and then when someone gets mugged they want to see the footage. The reality for end users is that they should not be storing important passwords to things like banking and most of the other ones can be recovered so easily that weather they are in plain text really makes little difference. Generally everyone has to get better about security and sites with a single layer of authentication like a password are really not all that secure to begin with.


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