chuqui@plaidworks.com said:

1. has anyone else ever run into something like this? My philosophy is that you're more than welcome to get upset about things I think are silly (but I don't promise to take it as seriously as you do, just to try to not snicker in your hearing), but I just don't get it. Especially since the site is pretty good at telling you NOT to use sensitive passwords. But -- is this guy off the chart, or have I just been lucky?

I got one last month. I'm expecting to get a complaint from the same guy today when the US wakes up and he gets to work. [I less than tactfully copied my reply to their postmaster suggesting they may need a security audit if this guy has put a password he cares about into a web page]

2. this probably should be chalked up as a vote for "making passwords optional" for lists. Personally, I think the added security passwords add is overwhelmed by the confusion and complexity they cause the user, so I'd like to turn them off. There are lists where they could be useful, but I could live without them...

In most cases I want them. However I keep thinking about a change in terminology, and wondered if calling these things cookies (which unfortunately has privacy and similar negative connotations) or something other than a password, maybe we could help people understand that these are very minimal security procedures.

Nigel.

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