If they don't making typing mistakes in the first place, then why are you emailing them their password?
On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:50 AM, Adrian Howard wrote: > If your target audience is developers than I can almost guarantee > that they'll complain if you e-mail them their password because: > a) e-mail is an insecure transport mechanism for passwords > b) it shows that you're storing the password in plain text rather > than a password hash, which means that evil folk who hack your > database can find out the passwords for everybody Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://toddwarfel.com ---------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
