On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:23:10 +0300, Rimas Kudelis wrote: 

> Hi,
> 
>
2010.10.21 18:55, pete rašė:
>> I agree with Cor, the main reason i use
Roundcube is the active maintained
>> codebase and a healthy attitude
towards privacy and security. For my 2
>> cents, security should have to
be the deafult and users can opt out. If you
>> develop unsafe defaults,
many will use as-is.
> 
> Yeah, except they can't even opt in right now,
without using third-party 
> code.
> 
> Don't get me wrong: I do like
sane security measures, but not always the 
> goal justifies the
measures. In this case, I see this absolute inability 
> to save
password as an annoyance.

Agreed. It would be nice to at least let
autocomplete save the username, and let the user decide whether to save
the password or not using the browser's features (Not Now, Never,
etc.).

> Then also, consider the fact that the same user is quite
likely to use 
> the same password elsewhere (e.g. facebook, which
coincidently uses 
> email address as the user name), which in my eyes
makes this security 
> measure even weaker. And you can't expect the
user to use different 
> passwords everywhere until this becomes
convenient enough (as in type 
> once, save for later, synchronize
between desktops).
> 
> Rimas
>
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