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Re: Password Rules - Impact on Users with Cognitive Disabilities

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 29, 2014 7:44AM

On 29/10/2014 12:31, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> I think password hiding is important, so passwords should be hidden by default.

Actually, not quite sure if that's true (anymore).

See for instance Luke Wroblesky's thoughts on this back in 2012
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1653 - and since then, a lot of
sites/apps seem to have gone that way too (showing by default, with
option to hide if needed).

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