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Re:The Decline of Usability by Lammy on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:43PM (#22903261)
The implementation may be bad but it seems like the same idea to me, “user must interact with UI before entering credentials”.
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Re:The Decline of Usability by olyjohn on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:48PM (#22903712)
Except you don't have to. Just start typing your password.
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Re:The Decline of Usability by Lammy on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:33PM (#22904004)
Yes, that’s why it’s a bad implementation of a good idea.
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Re:The Decline of Usability by int_19h on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:07PM (#22904475)
Even if you had to, it's still a bad idea. Ctrl+Alt+Delete works, because no normal Win32 app can intercept this - so if you do it, and you see a login box, you know that this is the real thing.

But any app can go fullscreen and draw a fake login screen that you can swipe up to show a fake login form.

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