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Great in theory, I don’t think it will play out good because of the average computer user. Ask any help desk employee.



Word. Password security should be proportional to chance of a dictionary attack * risk of a successful attack. Mozilla want a 12 character passwords to file a bug report when they really should publish an email address an anonymous html form and say please.


I know what you are feeling, but there's a balance to making bug filing easy. For a large visible project, make it easy and the statistical noise drowns everything out.


They do? Help / Submit Feedback / Firefox makes me sad, then fill in the form.




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