Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 1:05 PM César de Tassis Filho
<ctassisf () gmail com> wrote:
> Google uses your Google Account's password to encrypt passwords synced to the cloud. That is why passwords saved on 
> Android and synced to the cloud can be read elsewhere (including passwords.google.com).
>
> As I mentioned before, if you want to avoid this behavior Google offers you a way to use a different sync passphrase 
> (which inhibits access to passwords.google.com and also disables other features). Instructions here: 
> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139#passphrase

Hi César ,

This would be fine had I intended this behavior. That it magically
happened because I told my phone it could sync my gmail is very very
disturbing.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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