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  The Pros and Cons of Password Masking

  Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 1:42pm CDT

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  Usability guru Jakob Nielsen opened up a can of worms when he made the case for unmasking passwords in his blog. I chimed in that I agreed. Almost 165 comments on my blog (and several articles, essays, and many other blog posts) later, the consensus is that we were wrong. I was certainly too glib. Like any security countermeasure, password...