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Hunting for Bitwarden master passwords stored in memory

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Re: Hunting for Bitwarden master passwords stored in memory

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I'm guessing they've built the desktop client in JavaScript. One disadvantage of the language (and all similar ones!) is that the GC isn't deterministic. Without access to Node's gc() API, it's very hard to ensure the credentials are wiped from memory after locking.