Ian G writes: > But, in practice, it would be more secure these days > to show the password in the clear all the time, as > there is nobody peeking over the shoulder most of > the time in today's computing ...
Because today, they can be sitting in a van outside, monitoring the RF emanations of the screen and reconstructing whatever is being displayed. This is less of a risk with flat panel CRTs, but it's still there. Even so, I sometimes type passwords in the clear at home, the assumption being that I'm just not important enough for anyone to want to monitor that badly (and at that kind of expense). -- Anthony _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
