That was quick.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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Iirc chrome stores your local cookies/session in a place malware could also attack. Probably the same idea for other browsers.
I'm not sure I fully understand the issue here. If we're ok with that info being trivially retrievable by a bad actor, why isn't this ok?
Like I get you may not like it, and it's a target, but there are already lots of targets that have gotten a pass based on user permissions. Is it just the breadth of potential info? With the cookies you could potentially log into someone's bank account.
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Is this thing even a thing? I see lots of discussion about it, but not real proof it was enabled across the board on all win 11 computers.
Yes. It's very very real and is just a typical Microsoft bullshit move.
it's on "Copilot+" PCs (i.e. ARM-based with an NPU)