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Coding Horror: The Dramatic Password Reveal (codinghorror.com)
13 points by muriithi on Feb 13, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Some of the things to be learned from this:

the security features you need to use while in a public place are different from what you need when you're at home.

password obfuscation in dialog boxes is great when random people are around. not so great when you're at home and don't realize that the number 1 is broken on your keyboard for the first 10 failed login attempts.

I like choices like "reveal my password" so that the user can show the password if desired (instead of copying and pasting from a text editor). And I like options like "keep me logged in for a ridiculous amount of time". Nothing more frustrating that being timed out from my bank after every 10 minutes of inactivity.


Yes I agree: Lotus notes sucks ass. :-)


And Ray Ozzie that created it is now the guy that everyone is counting on to get Microsoft leadership on the web.

Go figure...




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