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"shoulder surf protection"?

• majewsky 11y ago
  "Shoulder surfing" refers to people extracting personal information, such as credentials, from your computer by just looking over your shoulder while you're typing them in or displaying them. Precisely the reason why password input fields usually display replacement characters instead of actual characters (or nothing at all if you're on a Unix terminal).
  • sarciszewski 11y ago
    How would transforming it before sending it over the wire help here?
    • majewsky 11y ago
      Not at all. If I want to impersonate someone, I just have to act like them. The only protection is 2FA.