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>if you mistyped your password, it would print the mistyped password, That's incredibly useful. Stand next to someone, casually chatting, while they enter the
by taborj 7y ago
>if you mistyped your password, it would print the mistyped password,
That's incredibly useful. Stand next to someone, casually chatting, while they enter their password. Just before they hit [ENTER], stab a key -- say, a 'z'. Boom, it prints their password with an extra 'z' at the end.
Sure, they'd be aware of it and likely change their password. But still. A more common use case would be to hang around and wait for them to inevitably typo the password. If you see that enough, you'll get a really good idea about what it's supposed to be, or at least give you enough of the password to make figuring out the missing part trivial.
- blotter_paper 7y agoI've never done anything malicious with the knowledge, but I've totally learned people's passwords just by watching their fingers type. I make an effort to have passwords that would be difficult for a human to nail down while watching them typed quickly in real time. The ubiquity of cameras has me reconsidering input and/or authentication mechanisms, though.
- psb 7y agoOne good thing about using dvorak I guess
- blotter_paper 7y agoEspecially with blank caps; securing keys through obscuring keys.
- war1025 7y agoAt one point I considered learning Dvorak and then having a password that was using the Dvorak key layout but on a Qwerty keyboard. But I only made it maybe a month into my Dvorak-learning efforts. Just not enough benefit for the added hassle.