Doing a presentation tomorrow for my church on scams, hackers and other internet baddies. I’m going to make the pitch for 1Password. (which I love and have used for 10 (?) years but it has a learning curve) I’m curious, I’ve not heard, nor found on the web anyone who discounts the security on the browser-specific password management. So if someone only uses a desktop and only uses Safari then using the browser password manager is okay? Any risks? thanks for all thoughts.
Web browsers are fairly easy to break into, and lots of malware, browser extensions and even honest software can extract sensitive information from them.
You should be able to find many articles like this one…
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I agree with @rob’s answer, but Safari only runs on Apple devices and afaik uses Keychain or Apple Passwords by default.
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Vulnerabilities are found in just about every version of every browser in use today. Apple documents these in their support pages.
For example: