(In reply to Brian Smith (:briansmith), was bsm...@mozilla.com (:bsmith) from comment #95) > Shouldn't the users that care about protecting their passwords be using > full-disk encryption with a system password already? Why don't we just > remove the master password mechanism on Linux completely, and rely on users > use of operating-system-level protection of their whole profile?
Full-disk encryption won't be available to whoever is storing its data on a computer he/she doesn't control. For example you might have to keep your profile on a shared drive when working in an office (alas that's a situation I have been in multiple times) and for those use cases providing a way to encrypt your saved passwords is very important. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217300 Title: Seahorse integration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/217300/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
