alt Hacker NewsIs there any reason to have this feature enabled for millions of desktop users vs enable by appropriately paranoid corporate IT departments?
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Elhana • today at 7:57 AM
Millions of desktop users would use empty password if they could.
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The reason is to protect the innocent, of course, they're mostly clueless about security! But I don't know the level of practical benefits for this measure, superficially seems to be rather low, but then (assuming silly usability issues like "appears frozen" are fixed) what's the downside?