On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
Doesn't look like that much of a risk to me: the user immediately sees
the problem, so it's more of a minor nuisance.
It depends of the situation. Few years ago, my boss watched my password
because this thing; if the password would be an offensive word
against him (it wasn't, he was nice) I could be fired. I remember he
mnetioned very proudly that in vi editor the password is always hidden...
This is also a risk while pair-programming; recently I am doing a lot with
several buddies. I suspect one of my passwords might be compromised.
But why wouldn't you just switch to char-mode before entering your
password? (which is kind of annoying to have to do, but still)