From: Mike N. 

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.

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