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This is awesome. I did not know decrypting chrome's password db is still that easy.

Cookies != Passwords..

But anyway... You know this is also easily accessible within DevTools, yah? https://umaar.com/dev-tips/3-copy-as-curl/

One could argue that cookies need to be more securely stored than passwords, because they can allow an attacker to bypass passwords and all other authentication factors.

Password DB in basic-store uses the key 'peanut'.

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