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		toephu2 on April 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NirSoft Freeware (2008) Wow Chromepass actually worked..I didn't even enter my windows admin password or anything.. I thought Chrome encrypts all the saved passwords. How is another program so easily able to read the passwords?

rasz on April 19, 2018 [–]

It does encrypt, using Windows DPAPI :) They are freely available to any program as long as you are logged in, or offline if you know windows/victims password.

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