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Do you trust saving CC numbers in Firefox? (feddit.it)
submitted 9 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I'm just scared that they're saved with reversible encryption on the disk, then malware could steal them

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

The number being somewhere on your computer isn't something I'd worry about. The real risk is from a liberal autocomplete that might throw it into website forms where you don't want it to be, including hidden ones. Maybe there are protections in place since I last let Firefox save anything like this, but it used to try pasting address and CC info whenever it could.