Poll – Masking Password Fields

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Poll – Masking Password Fields

By Robert Campbell on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I disagree with Jakob’s findings that unmasking the password field in a form will improve usability, and could even improve security. I strongly believe password fields should be masked, and one of my points was that I think there is a potential to lose customers at an even great scale because they feel the site is not secure. So here is this weeks poll.

Here is the poll: Do you think masking the password field in a form improves security?

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