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== Films ==
* ''[[War Games]]'' has a
* Strange inversion in the ''[[Death Note]]'' movie: the ''username'' is asterisked out while the password is highly visible. Some [[Real Life]] systems actually work that way.
* Happened in ''[[Batman Forever]]''.
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* 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 [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
* Some command line programs (like the [[MySQL]] client) still have ways of entering the password in the clear.
* In one of the more boneheaded examples of this trope, a recent update to a popular VPN program requires the user to enter the password by clicking on a ''huge on-screen keyboard''. With the positions of the keys randomized, to slow you down while you search for where the A key is ''this'' time so that the person sitting next to you has plenty of time to jot down your password. The password itself ''is'' masked, presumably because it makes the joke funnier that way.
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