Password Masking
Slashdot asks if password masking—replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them—is on the way out. I don’t know if that’s true, but I would be happy to see it go. Shoulder surfing, the threat it defends against, is largely nonexistent. And it is becoming harder to type in passwords on small screens and annoying interfaces. The IoT will only exacerbate this problem, and when passwords are harder to type in, users choose weaker ones.
Bob Dylan's Twitching Eyebrow • July 19, 2017 10:42 AM
“Shoulder surfing, the threat is defends against, is largely nonexistent.”
It is nonexistent precisely because of password masking. It is a bizarre claim to make that we no longer need a security strategy precisely because the strategy is working.