[kde-guidelines] [KDE Usability] Password Field

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Saturday 07 December 2013 18:08:23 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2013-12-07, Björn Balazs <b at lazs.de> wrote:
> > I assume that the environment does not change that often. When I work in a
> > train (and hence want to hide passwords) I do this for quite some time. So
> > I thought I might be a good idea to keep the last state. Also there is
> > not a lot of potential harm, as you immediately see whether the password
> > is shown or not - so you can toggle the mode to the desired state.
> > 
> > The idea is to be convenient - which most of the time somehow interferes
> > with security.
> 
> I'd love to be able to toggle the password visibility in more cases than
> it currently is possible today. So yes. Toggle buttons everywhere.
> 
> And let it default to being 'stars' or similar symbols. Security trumps
> convenience. We can't let users having their password snooped by the
> co-passengers or co-workers or just people who pass by you while sitting in
> a Cofe.

Unless we assume people are stupid, we can assume that they will set it to 
masking again once they go to a public place, can't we? And even if they 
forget, they should notice after the first characters appear.