Are you all telling me to compromise security just because people don't want
to learn how to do Grafitti? What about making a password of
letters/numbers you actually can remember to get right each time?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nesse, Rustin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:26 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: #### password Field Resource
>
>
> > Have you considered not masking the password at all? Is it
> really necess=
> ary
>
> > on a handheld device? Having a password swiped over your
> shoulder is a l=
> ot
> > less of a danger on a 4-inch screen compared to a 17-inch
> screen. Also, =
> if
> > you mask it then you should have two fields, just like in a
> desktop app, =
> to
> > catch typos. With a keyboard that's ok but with Graffiti,
> I'd be really
> > annoyed to have to blindly Graffiti the same thing in
> twice. Just my
> > US$.02.
> >=20
> > -slj-
>
> >I tend to agree here. Personally, I don't use much password
> protection at
> >all, cause my palm is always with me. But, it's a lot
> easier to tell if
> >someone's reading over your shoulder on your Palm than it is
> on a monitor.
>
> Yeah, I agree with that. I usually make a keyboard out of
> push buttons
> for login/key entry screens, and I've found it's much easier to tell
> people to NOT use Graffiti or the system keyboard than to
> tell them they
> have to. The only downside is that you can't fit as many keys on one
> screen as you can by using the system keyboard (Unless you
> put a button
> on to load your own number pad, and just switch forms and
> save the data
> in a global temporarily). Graffiti is hard enough for
> beginners to learn,
> let alone masking out the characters while they write them.
> If there are
> keys right there on the screen, chances are that the user
> will use them.
> If someone needed to mask out data ON the system keyboard,
> you're looking
> at something more like a hack or custom font type thing than
> not, and that's
> not always the best idea for something that vanilla.
>
> -Rus
>
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