New open-source app extracts passwords stored in Mac OS X keychain

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinSep 6, 2012, 8:04 am495 pts
Juuso Salonen A software developer has released an open-source app for the Mac that, when run with administrator privileges, dumps all the passwords belonging to other people currently logged on to the machine. Within hours of the release of Keychaindump by Helsinki-based Juuso Salonen, other Mac experts were…

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