<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Nicholas Alexander <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nalexander@mozilla.com" target="_blank">nalexander@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Christopher Karlof <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ckarlof@mozilla.com" target="_blank">ckarlof@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Ryan Feeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfeeley@mozilla.com" target="_blank">rfeeley@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>John and I were recently deeply moved by Luke W’s long form article on showing passwords by default.</div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I read this a while back and found it compelling.<br><br></div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941" target="_blank">http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941</a></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Cool article.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Luke seems focused on Mobile in that article. On Mobile, users have different security/trust expectations than on Desktop.</div><div>2) FWIW, I tried show people’s password by default on Desktop in my password manager project ~2010 (for the same reasons Luke discusses) and lots of people freaked out. We started hiding it by default instead.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Who freaked out? This sounds like pre-Mozilla, but was it developers/managers/etc, or was it user?<br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It was non-Mozilla. We received a lot of support requests that suggested what we were doing were doing was wrong. I don't know if it necessarily is, but I will admit is jarring to see your password appear in the clear when you've had 10+ years of conditioning that it always appears as ***** (on the Web) or not all at (in *nix). <br></div><div><br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>Nick<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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