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by thaumaturgy 2843 days ago
"Just".

Modern browsers and OS kernels have extensive mitigations against this. Reliably extracting a password from a browser process's heap would be newsworthy today.

1 comments

I think “just” is apt. If you have a web request to send the password, you will have a url or username string very close by in memory that can be searched for.