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by morgante 3527 days ago
Wouldn't any (third-party) JavaScript on the page still have access to it?
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They would also have access to everything else, including the entered password.
Right. The scenario I'm considering is not a hostile attacker but simple an overzealous analytics script which also tracked hash strings. Heck, since some sites used to do AJAX navigation that way it wouldn't surprise me if some analytics services were configured to track hash strings.