On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Ian Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > > I must agree with Matthew on this. Asking for a password is defending > against someone gaining unauthorized access to their computer, but that is a > bit like closing the gate after the cows have escaped. If someone has > access to your computer then you are pretty-much an open book to them > anyway. All demanding a password does is inconvenience the user, it won't > thwart an attacker.
This *is* a question of usability right? Users are used to entering a password when logging in. It might not "feel" like they logged in if they didn't have to enter a password. It might also protect the user from people that have access to the computer but are not professional hackers or governments. People would not be surprised in any way when they have to create an account (+password) when starting Freenet for the first time. One account is all that most people will use anyway. Every account would have its own bookmarks, downloads and WoT identity. That way it looks like Freenet is just another social networking site with content that you can only view when logged in. People who don't want to use a password can leave it empty or have Freenet "remember" them. Writing usable software is often doing what the user expects instead of what actually makes sense to us technical people. - Gerard _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
