07 July 2009
Password Masking Update
Last week I highlighted Jakob Nielsen's advice on Password Masking, which I believe to be misguided.
Nielsen's Alerbox generated a wide-ranging discussion—in particular there are some excellent points of view at Web Security Mailing List, and a comment on this blog from Robert Campbell. I was surprised that "security guru" Bruce Schneier seemed to agree with Nielsen and this has been widely reported such as Usability and Security Gurus Agree That Masked Passwords Should Go.
Bruce Schneier now admits he was "probably" wrong The Pros and Cons of Password Masking. Good, let's hope that becomes as widely reported.
Posted on: 07 July 2009 at 12:34 hrs
Comments are filtered automatically and should appear shortly after they been checked.