Security issue?

Discussion in 'General' started by Shuriken, 30 Nov 2005.

  1. Shuriken

    Shuriken same christmas AV for a whole year

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    I just made my gmail address my primary paypal email address, and to confirm that I'm the owner of the paypal account they asked me to fill in the card number of my debit card that I have registered with them.
    So I start typing the number, and 4 digits in firefox pops down an autocomplete field with my entire card number in.
    I find this a little disconcerting to say the least, I have no idea how firefox stores auto complete data, but I'd rather not have it stored at all.
    Is there a way to delete particular autocomplete values, or do I have to wipe the lot?

    Thanks.

    Matt
     
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    731|\|37 ESD Engineer in Training

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    od guess there is an XML DB somewhere that FF digs from. you might be able to smack that number off. but it would just be reeneterd next time you used it


    EDIT: now that iv dug arround in there I dont see anything that looks like it would hold values for autotext replacement. ALot on charsets (ALOT) and char encoding. HTML viewing properties. The stylesheet for viewing source :naughty: and a whole bunch of stuff (BTW most every dependancy outside of DLL is openable on notepad if you want to dig around)
     
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  3. Shuriken

    Shuriken same christmas AV for a whole year

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    hmm, wiped the cache and turned autocomplete off, It's odd though, as I've used autocomplete for ages, and done many online money transfers, but thats the first time thats ever happened :confused:
     

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