I don't like it when computers are used to program people. Your password must have exactly 10 characters etc. is a salient example. Compare that to a better U

I don't like it when computers are used to program people. Your password must have exactly 10 characters etc. is a salient example. Compare that to a better UI like git--really, tell me users don't interact with it--and you'll notice that git lets you make terrible mistakes if you want to, but provides a way to recover. It's interesting that this better approach to passwords[0] resembles the "I forgot my password" feature. [0] http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/cwi/Teaching/MASPPapers/EmailAuth.pdf http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/cwi/Teaching/MASPPapers/EmailA...