On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 15:50 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 05/04/2013 06:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/1248242/fedora-19-to-stop-masking-passwords > > > > Well, that escalated quickly. > > And in one of the replies: > > http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3716785&cid=43628711 > > "I like the way Windows 8 addressed this problem. They added a button that > looks like an eye on the right hand side of the password field to show > the password as you've typed it. That seems like a better compromise than > briefly showing the password characters." > > I think Microsoft just succeeded in teaching Linux something about security practices. > And this is not something to be proud of. That seems to be needless hyperbole. The 'have a button to toggle the status' solution was proposed in the 2009 discussion already. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
