> this guy is complaining that it's somehow misleading. The one thing I will grant the author is that the explanation given for application-specific passwords

> this guy is complaining that it's somehow misleading. The one thing I will grant the author is that the explanation given for application-specific passwords could be somewhat clearer. Feel free to call me stupid, but the first time I used the interface after reading the description, I remember not fully understanding what was going on and thinking that I had to choose a particular name to use a password with a particular application. It took me a little more thought about the purpose of these application-specific passwords to understand that that wouldn't make any sense, and these are instead just plain old passwords with labels for personal convenience in case you want to revoke a particular one later. I like to think of myself as reasonably technically inclined and this still threw me off, so I can certainly imagine how it would really confuse an average user (though the number of average users using this feature is probably pretty negligible).