Jakob Nielsen s Alert Box post titled Stop Password Masking and wanted to provide some feedback from a security vs. usability perspective. Nielsen questions the real security benefit of password masking something I haven t given a second thought to well, ever. Sometimes it is a good exercise to go back and review why we do the things we do especially as it relates to information security controls. Read the full story [SANS AppSec Street Fighter Blog (Jason Montgomery)
Source: https://threatpost.com/it-time-stop-password-masking-062909/72828/