From: /m 

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:05:46 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:53:58 -0400, /m  wrote:
>
>>It is downright frightening that IE still takes such a lackadaisical
>>attitude towards password management.
>
>  Ultimately, there is no way to protect from password retrieval because
>the browser has to be able to retrieve the cleartext password and give it
>to the web site.   No matter what browser, no matter what the protection in
>the future, someone will always be able to get the passwords.

One of the reasons why I do not use the feature.  Never have, probably never will.

  /m

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