Re: secure uitextfield is not secure
Re: secure uitextfield is not secure
- Subject: Re: secure uitextfield is not secure
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:17:21 -0700
On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Luther Baker <email@hidden> wrote:
>> The only way to find out is to file a radar and see what comes out in iOS
> 8.
>
> How very sad ... there should really be no way I could influence Apple in
> this regard. IE: this isn't some elaborate, hard to define bug. This better
> not be an accident that requires energy from someone as insignificant as me
> .... to ask that secure text fields not echo their contents in Plaintext.
Filing a bug *is* how you influence Apple. Or, buy a few million shares. Or become a head of engineering. I mean seriously, if everyone had the same amount of influence, then iOS would be Android.
> I guess its no big deal when you think of the naive device use case - where
> someone could simply watch your fingers type on the virtual keyboard ...
> but demos are often on mirrored devices or sometimes use hardware keyboards
> or are fired up the simulator and displayed on the big screen as the team
> watches in earnest to see the week's progress.
Perhaps a good bug report is that the user’s screen works the same way it does now, but if its mirrored - then the mirrored screen keeps he password hidden. That would be a good use case.
>
> Again, I'm OK with it. I like writing custom controls. Just find it
> interesting ... there has to be _some_ reason we haven't uncovered yet :)
> Wanted to see if anyone had an elegant solution or if I'd missed something
> in the API.
The good reason was already provided - MOST people cannot enter a password on a soft keyboard without seeing the character they just pressed.
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