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Who shares masked passwords? I thought they were just there to keep someone over your shoulder from reading it.
by jbwyme 15y ago
Who shares masked passwords? I thought they were just there to keep someone over your shoulder from reading it.
- geuis 15y agoOne usecase might be if you have someone over at your house and they need to use your wifi. You might want to be able to let them connect securely without you having to tell them your password.
- code_duck 15y agoMy suggestion for that would be to change it, either before or after. This entire idea of 'sharing a masked password' is completely ridiculous.
- code_duck 15y agoI've never heard of this, either. It sounds like something that some notion dreamed up by someone who doesn't know anything about how computers or software. I'm not sure why the article needs to go to such length to prove this bizarre idea insecure; offering a method to do what they want that makes sense is probably the best approach.