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Originally Posted by lumberjim
AND virtual keyboards to confound keyloggers. i can take a little annoyance, i think
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Sure. Riiiight.
Here's my take on your observations.
I find the phrase "Virtual keyboard" positively gravid with the potential for the worst kind of abuse, that being a false sense of security. I *think* I can imagine something like you're talking about, that does confound keyloggers, but I can easily think of several ways to call it the same thing that does nothing of the sort.
The sad reality is that convenient and secure practically never live in the same box. They are in inverse proportion to each other. And in those rare scenarios where both values are high, they got that way by adding a lot of money. Convenient, secure, inexpensive. Pick any two, but only two.
What most users find is that something that is annoying will not be used. And the bad guys know this too. Your threshold for annoyance is different than other people's threshold, but it is a difference of degree only. And you have your limit too, as I do, as we all do. Heck, even the lady at the bank told me that she deals with this new level of complexity by answering all the questions, regardless of the question, with the same answer. That's her solution to this security annoyance.
If it sucks to use it, it will not be used. I guaran-damn-tee it.