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Comment Masking passwords (Score 1) 849

Obvoiusly this guy has never used a Kiosk or sat at Starbucks. Shoudlder surfing is bad enough, but every public place has survielence cameras, and web cams are cheap enough and small enough to leave a few pointing at likely places. If the password is shown on the screen, it is also on a video somewhere as well. Now if we went to one-time passwords, then echoing the password wouldn't be a problem, but as long as we keep replayable passwords, I don't want it echoed back to the sceen.

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