{"id":737,"date":"2016-02-16T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=737"},"modified":"2020-04-24T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:29:54","slug":"bad-password-masking-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2016\/02\/16\/bad-password-masking-in-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad password-masking (in movies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, movies have a tendency to show password that someone types into a computer in such a way that each character is shown briefly before being replaced by a circle, \u00d7, or asterisk. This is terrible from a security standpoint as can be seen in the movie <em>Iron Man 3<\/em> since you can probably see what the password is. I can&#8217;t fathom what reason they could have for doing this other than as an easter-egg for viewers. Hopefully real developers never do this; if you are ever in a position to create an interface that involves entering sensitive information which needs to be masked, <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> show what was entered <strong>at all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_738\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Bad-Password-Masking-in-Iron-Man-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Bad-Password-Masking-in-Iron-Man-3-300x127.gif\" alt=\"Scene from \u201cIron Man 3\u201d with terrible password-masking\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Bad-Password-Masking-in-Iron-Man-3-300x127.gif 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Bad-Password-Masking-in-Iron-Man-3-768x325.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">This is <em>not<\/em> secure (view full-size for animation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, movies have a tendency to show password that someone types into a computer in such a way that each character is shown briefly before being replaced by a circle, \u00d7, or asterisk. This is terrible from a security standpoint as can be seen in the movie Iron Man 3 since you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}