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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Allowing No Hide mode in passwords
From:       Jorge Adriano Aires <jadrian () mat ! uc ! pt>
Date:       2004-01-19 17:19:55
Message-ID: 200401191719.55894.jadrian () mat ! uc ! pt
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> It could however be a useful feature to be able to see the password as you
> type. You also may want to consider to show only the last letter a user has
> typed, or only the letter at the cursor. Hide the rest with stars.
>
> Because of the insecurity a user should not be able to turn this feature on
> before receiving some lecture on security and why this is a bad idea.

I think this is a really bad idea. 
What about "guests"? I would hate to know that someone using a friends 
computer with KDE could end up showing his password to everybody because the 
owner had those unsafe settings in his computer.

J.A.

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