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-pass...
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.