On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Nicholas Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Christopher Karlof <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Ryan Feeley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> John and I were recently deeply moved by Luke W’s long form article on >>> showing passwords by default. >>> >> > I read this a while back and found it compelling. > > >>> http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941 >>> >>> >> Cool article. >> >> Thoughts: >> >> 1) Luke seems focused on Mobile in that article. On Mobile, users have >> different security/trust expectations than on Desktop. >> 2) FWIW, I tried show people’s password by default on Desktop in my >> password manager project ~2010 (for the same reasons Luke discusses) and >> lots of people freaked out. We started hiding it by default instead. >> > > Who freaked out? This sounds like pre-Mozilla, but was it > developers/managers/etc, or was it user? > > It was non-Mozilla. We received a lot of support requests that suggested what we were doing were doing was wrong. I don't know if it necessarily is, but I will admit is jarring to see your password appear in the clear when you've had 10+ years of conditioning that it always appears as ***** (on the Web) or not all at (in *nix). > Nick > >
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