Le samedi 04 mai 2013 à 05:51 -0400, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: > > and I think that even Bruce Schneier have gave his opinion in > favor of > the proposal : > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wit_2.html > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/the_pros_and_co.html > > > Not anymore > > http://www.out-law.com/page-10152.
This page cite the 2nd link I already gave earlier... And the way I read it, he explain that for him, the risk of should surfing are overrated. He also say that for a public terminal and a pin code, password should be masked, but for a person on a private computer, that's likely not a problem. Now of course, the issue is that a installer of a linux distribution is not a web site, so part of the discussion doesn't apply at all. And being at the moment in a install party ( which is as the most public way of installing a linux system ), I see quite often people writing their passwords on a paper ( and not only during install party ). And if most people have already trouble to keep up their passwords, I think most people will have more problem with passwords of others. The "show password as we type" proposal is good for a mobile as you likely have accuracy issues with it, but I am not sure that help solving the problems that showing password is (IMHO) meant to solve ( but again, I just speculate on the reason, I trust the designers to make educated choices but I am not mind reading ). -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
