Timeline for Security behind the windows 8 eye
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| Jan 3, 2017 at 9:17 | comment | added | PeterM | Prior to "eye" feature (Win XP etc.) there was a "Revelation" program to reveal any password fields, which worked in similar way. | |
| Aug 12, 2013 at 9:41 | vote | accept | BlueBerry - Vignesh4303 | ||
| Aug 9, 2013 at 16:25 | comment | added | ratchet freak | any other normal password field also keeps the password in plain text in memory ready for the code to query it, all the eye does is turn off the masking so it gets echo on screen | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 7:18 | history | answered | user10211 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |