2010/11/12 Ian Clarke <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Gerard Krol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> With websites, perhaps, but not with their own software.
>
Well, the point is to make them feel like it's a website. But, they're
also used to enter password for communication software (live, skype,
...).
>>
>> Writing usable software is often doing what the user expects instead
>> of what actually makes sense to us technical people.
>
> This is true, to some extent, but I don't think it should extend so far as
> creating completely unnecessary inconveniences, like demanding a password
> for no added security benefit.
The best thing to do would be to experiment. But, having a password
can avoid friends (irl) to whom you lend your laptop to
"inadvertently" log in your account and look at what you've done on
Freenet. (I agree it doesn't give any protection against a real
attacker, but that's also less probable).
> Ian.
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