Art Alexion on 22 Jan 2008 12:38:39 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] un-obscuring password fields


On Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:34:29 Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:23:20 Jonathan Bringhurst wrote:
> > In short, it's a security feature and the developers want to make it
> > hard for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
>
> Protecting me from myself would better involve letting me see what I am
> typing because putting my foot through the monitor when I keep
> "mis-spelling" a password is painful and expensive.

I forgot to thank Jonathan and Brent for their input.  If anyone is 
interested, there is a firefox plugin for echoing passwords.

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