On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > Look, please, by all means, calmly discuss the merits of the decision. > Just don't bring into question the motivations of its introduction > unless you have a damn strong factual basis for doing so. I maintain an open source project for computational journalists. The intended deployment model is as virtual machines for people who might very well be working, as I often do, in coffee shops with unsecured WiFi and excellent pastries. There are plenty of risks involved already in that milieu, as noted here: http://mashable.com/2013/04/27/hacked-starbucks/ Passwords visible for a significant period of time will essentially render my main modus operandi - installing a virtual machine over the Internet - too risky in public settings. In the long run I need to build a better deployment model anyway, and I'm committed to Fedora going forward on this project for many other reasons. But if I have a vote, my vote is to eliminate password visibility entirely. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench http://j.mp/CompJournBench/ Get out of the building - and don't come back till you have the order! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
