Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | What's this? What are these funny little icons on login here now on IE 10? Is that an eye next to the password? There is one on Username box also but you can't see it because the focus, when I took the screenshot, was on the password field. The User name icon is just an x and if you click on it then what you typed is erased.
The one for Password, if I click on it, exposes my Password in plaintext.
Hmm...apparently this is something new on IE. It's on any login boxes on any site!Better not click on the password "eye" if you are not alone as someone could see your password.
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 StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
join:2000-08-06
Galt's Gulch
kudos:2 | I'd guess that it's a mechanism to delete (and maybe save) usernames/passswords.
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garys_2kPremium
join:2004-05-07
Farmington, MI | reply to Mele20
I think it's the all seeing eye from the Total Information Awareness thing they floated a few years ago, now being embedded into the browser.  |
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StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
join:2000-08-06
Galt's Gulch
kudos:2
1 edit | Danger Will Robinson, extreme danger! 
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StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
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kudos:2 | reply to Mele20
IE10 Password Eye
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 therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | reply to Mele20
How do I remove the “eye symbol” from password fields in Windows 8?
Do not display the reveal password button
Internet Explorer 10 Windows 8 Remove Text Input and Password Action Icons |
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 BlackbirdBuilt for SpeedPremium
join:2005-01-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:3
 ·Frontier Communi..
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It's everywhere! It's everywhere...! |
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StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
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Galt's Gulch
kudos:2 | Yep, Bob is everywhere  |
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BlackbirdBuilt for SpeedPremium
join:2005-01-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:3 Reviews:
·Frontier Communi..
| As a very little kid, I used to think there was somebody inside the dollar-bill looking out the back, through that triangular hole. Little did I know I was right...
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 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| said by Blackbird:As a very little kid, I used to think there was somebody inside the dollar-bill looking out the back, through that triangular hole. Little did I know I was right... When I was a callow ant, I thought there was a real eye inside that pyrmaid in Egypt. :P
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I've used a Firefox addon for years to achieve the same thing. There are times when I get fat fingers and it comes in handy.  |
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 scelliNative New YorkerPremium
join:1999-08-07
FLOT/FEBA
kudos:1 | reply to Blackbird
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to StuartMW
Thank you!
What I want to know is why it is not on the MAIN login here if it supposed to be on all logins?
How come I have had IE 10 now for almost FOUR MONTHS and this just showed up now? It did not come on IE 10 and Win 8 like those articles claim. It is something NEW on IE.
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | reply to Mele20
Side note: commentary from 2008 on password-reveal features:
»www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/0···eal.html
I agree: is good thing. Most mandatory obfuscation is a holdover from the days when computer terminals used paper. If someone's looking over your shoulder, don't click on that button. Which may be risky if you don't know what the button is. |
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 Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
join:2003-08-04
USA
kudos:11 | reply to Mele20
Thats totally stupid and UN-NEEDED!!!!!
What the hell?? |
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| said by Dude111:Thats totally stupid and UN-NEEDED!!!!!
What the hell??
You wouldn't say that if you'd used up 2 of your 3 tries to enter your banking password and kept turning around the same 2 characters. Or got on the wrong home row.
It's a tool. It fills a need. How you use it is up to you. |
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Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
join:2003-08-04
USA
kudos:11 | I guess but the password field shows ************ for a reason!! |
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | said by Dude111:I guess but the password field shows ************ for a reason!!
Yeah, a reason that never ever applies to me.
I don't use paper-based computer terminals.
There's no-one looking over my shoulder.
The display is *gone* in the time it takes me to type a few characters and hit ENTER.
Since none of those are problems for me, there's no reason to obscure the password. Making it optional (and requiring explicit action to reveal) is a good solution.
Another good solution is the iOS approach of showing the actual character for a split-second and then blobbing it out; that is not safe if there are overlookers, but it's configurable. |
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StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
join:2000-08-06
Galt's Gulch
kudos:2 Reviews:
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2 edits | As I discovered, when researching the feature yesterday, some people like it while others hate it. As per my (and others) link you can disable it. No biggie...
PS: I remember using a DECwriter
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | Oh, one of those high-speed modern devices? With the fancy lower case?
It was the ASR33 for me. |
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