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** [[Fridge Logic]]: if you ''are'' important enough to spy on, aren't you important enough to have a keylogger put into your computer? (Given that one of these can be done remotely...)
* The "remember my password on this computer" function can have a similar effect. [[Hilarity Ensues]] whenever someone uses this for something critical without bothering to set a login password for their PC, and it gets stolen.
* And then there's folks who think that [https://web.archive.org/web/20121220235827/http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html passwords should not be masked by default anyway].
** The first computer hackers, mostly found at MIT in the late 50s / early 60s, believed there shouldn't be passwords at all—everybody should have access to everybody's files—yes, even write access! They managed to keep that ideology in place in university computers for a surprisingly long time. Read all about those folks in [[wikipedia:Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution|this book]].
* Some command line programs (like the [[MySQL]] client) still have ways of entering the password in the clear.
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