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Comment by _8j50

Ugh..no it does not work that way.

You are thinking in hypotheticals like many developers do.

Most infostealer malware just exfiltratr your data and disappear before being detected do they can hit a lot of targets before commom av starts detecting them. People also accidentally disclose data, back it up on a usb drive and lose that drive, have their pc stolen,etc...

If you have keepass2 with a memory argon2 and a password/passphrase none of that is a concern.

Yes, the malware could also be a keylogger/RAT and you'd be screwed then. One the most important security mindsets to have is "perfection is the enemy of good", specific security controls exist to address specific threats/risk not to address arbitrary and and an unbounded number of possible threats.

parent _8j50 3 years ago

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