Is there any reason to have this feature enabled for millions of desktop users vs enable by appropriately paranoid corporate IT departments?

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eviks 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The reason is to protect the innocent, of course, they're mostly clueless about security! But I don't know the level of practical benefits for this measure, superficially seems to be rather low, but then (assuming silly usability issues like "appears frozen" are fixed) what's the downside?

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Elhana 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Millions of desktop users would use empty password if they could.

	▲	mikkupikku 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Most of them would be well enough served by that too. It used to be normal and perfectly suitable for most home users.