Posts by dasdfdd

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What the hell

Hello idiotic government, facebook's privacy policy is exactly that - FACEBOOK'S. If you want to make a social networking site and give it an ultra-protective privacy policy, YOU CAN. Facebook can keep their site with their crappy policy.

I'm so tired of people acting like trivial public websites on the INTERNET are violating some commandment by acting like Internet websites. Hey guess what old people who don't know what the Internet is, Internet websites are the epitome of insecurity.

You want secure private data? Don't put it into a cloud!

lolwut

Wow, for experts, these guys sure don't seem to know anything about computers.

First, websites don't mask the passwords, BROWSERS do. Yeah the web developer chooses the 'password' type of input, but hey, that's what the HTML spec says you should use for passwords. Any other way of developing it would arguably be a hack.

Second, there have been so many cases where I haven't been sure if I was typing a password correctly, so I typed the password in a DIFFERENT place, read it, and then copy/pasted it to the actual password location. In other words, masked passwords "must" do nothing. They might be annoying when you need to see what you've typed, but there are VERY easy ways around their pitfalls. And, as has already been mentioned, mobile devices handle masking differently BECAUSE you can't copy/paste cleartext passwords into the masked input fields.

This is hardly a problem at all.