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Re:Chrome's insane password security strategy by madaxe on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:29AM (#6173067)
Again, missing the point. Both your average attacker and average user have as much technical knowledge as a daffodil, which means even the most trivial barrier would be effective.

As to users who don't set a password - never make the passwords visible.

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Re:Chrome's insane password security strategy by DanBC on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:05AM (#6178196)
In that case the most trivial barrier is to lock the screen when you're away from your machine, or to set a guest account for when you lend the machine to someone else.
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Re:Chrome's insane password security strategy by devero on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @02:13PM (#6174521)
what makes you think that people that hate to remember passwords will want to remember a password that locks them out of their password? This is stupid. Users that care about security will LEARN about more secure solutions one way or another. Don't treat humans as dumb fucks.
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