Timeline for answer to What prevents a browser from saving and tracking passwords entered to a site? by wonderbear
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| Sep 3, 2024 at 20:56 | comment | added | Moshe Katz | Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF), by Ken Thompson, is every bit as relevant today as it was when he wrote it in 1984. | |
| Aug 31, 2024 at 2:39 | comment | added | mbrig | @PeterGreen and unless you are building your own hardware out of discrete components, you need to fear the possibility of hardware backdoors. | |
| Aug 31, 2024 at 1:23 | comment | added | Peter Green | There is a project called "live-bootstrap" to start from a tiny binary stub, small enough to hand audit and build up from there using only source code, which could in principle be audited. It's a long road though from the tiny binary stub to a modern OS and just because something can be audited doesn't mean it actually has been. | |
| Aug 30, 2024 at 2:13 | comment | added | chux | "you may need to follow these steps for these pieces of software too" --> this leads to a viscous cycle - how to trust the compiler used to compile the compiler? A solution to break this cycle can be applied to the original issue and negate the need to download & compile. | |
| Aug 29, 2024 at 19:10 | comment | added | Kevin | Chrome does indeed do this, but openly and behind an opt-in. Of course, it is not intended to nefariously steal the user's passwords, merely to help the user remember them. But it meets all of the technical criteria described in the question. | |
| Aug 29, 2024 at 18:37 | comment | added | wonderbear | @schroeder I do not dispute this; it is however the theoretically correct solution to not trusting software. | |
| Aug 29, 2024 at 16:13 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | "reviewing the code yourself" takes an incredible amount of both time and skill for a browser. Once you include the OS ... forget about it. This answer is of limited usefulness... | |
| Aug 29, 2024 at 15:10 | history | answered | wonderbear | CC BY-SA 4.0 |