Why is this still an issue? The problem of displaying passwords has been solved by Unix years ago: do not show any visual feedback whatsoever. Security over co

Why is this still an issue? The problem of displaying passwords has been solved by Unix years ago: do not show any visual feedback whatsoever. Security over convenience. The problem of storing and subsequent input of random secure passwords has also been solved by Schneier and others via pwsafe and variants thereof. No worries about mistyping at all. For special cases like Blackberry-type gadgets, what is needed is simply a port of pwsafe.