Should Password Masking be eliminated ?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA half in favour. Good point atno. Recon we should all start talking masked textnox just to prove a point. Would be like hang man

Eye.

What if we all decided not to jump off a bridge, would you do it just because everyone else isn't ?

I didn't say you could secure the bungee to the bridge either.

I suppose not everyone is a lemming. Seriously though in a perfect world, we wouldn't need masking, but lets face it, there's too many people out there that would seriously take advantage of an administrator password if they were lucky enough to see it. And at work there are dozens of opportunities a day when I'm helping somebody with a problem and they are standing over my shoulder when I login.

why not give the person the option. A simple checkbox that enables or disables the password masking.

I wonder how long it would take people to get used to their being an extra button in a log in form. How long did it take the checkboxes for remaining logged in to catch on ?

oh, what do ya know. Sorry bout that, didn't feel like reading 2 pages worth of responses. Oh well, let's add that to the vote.

Masking, no masking, user option.

So far we have 2 for user option!

i (I'm with joebert here. We could do Joebert's idea here).

I don't agree with the article. I usually like the contrarian ideas and I agree with some points but all in all doesn't make sense.

You need to type in passwords many times per day. It takes one person just one look and he knows it and can freely distribute it further.

How stressed would you feel if you had to fill in and submit login form quickly before anyone comes in each time. Or looking behind while you are typing the form in a room with some people if somebody is not looking.

joeberts idea is cool!

The problem with Joe's idea is that designers will neglect to set the z-index correctly for the check box, and I'll end up tabbing to what I think is the "keep me logged in" box, hitting space, and revealing my password to the masses.