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pquimo
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3 years ago

autofill risks?

I have a friend who is using BitWarden, and I noticed it didn't autofill on websites by default. As I was researching why, I found this page: https://bitwarden.com/help/auto-fill-browser/#on-page-lo...
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1P_Dave
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3 years ago

pquimo

Thanks for the reply. Automatic filling of credentials, without any input from the user, could lead to a malicious page carrying out an attack where it collects usernames and passwords. 1Password does not offer automatic filling (without user action) in order to protect against this threat.

One of my colleagues wrote a more technical explanation all the way back in 2014: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/153916/#Comment_153916

Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂

-Dave