Password Masking
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Slashdot asks if password masking—replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them—is on the way out. I don’t know if that’s true, but I would be happy to see it go. Shoulder surfing, the threat it defends against, is largely nonexistent. And it is becoming harder to type in passwords on small screens and annoying interfaces. The IoT will only exacerbate this problem, and when passwords are harder to type in, users choose weaker ones.
Tags: Internet of Things, passwords, usability
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