The fact is, masking is a great alternative to just showing the password you are wanting to type on your login.

What if you leave your computer unattended while typing in the password?

What if while in the middle of typing in your password, you minimize a window, and forget about it, just to restore the window in front of a co-worker?

Masking is a great thing, and anyone who says it should be unmasked either doesn't understand security or basically is hoping FOR it to make their lives of cracking easier.

Either way, masking isn't exactly "secure" either. The password is still being stored in plain text.

The best solution is to use SSL for login forms. However, masking is just an absolute necessity for the sake of eye-ball security.

Just because there are idiots out there who can't use a keyboard doesn't mean the rest of us should suffer.

Dude, the whole "point" of the image is to show what "kind" of blackberry Llamabama is using. Any phone phreak out there would know that this is a good thing to know if you're trying to hack his phone...

How do you guys do it? However it is, hook a nerd (me) up!!

Huge subscriber, one time, this keyboard would rock!!!

LOL, this is no different from the 10$ developer or the 25$ developer.

If you're stupid enough to buy this garbage, you deserve to get what you pay for.

Seriously? I think it's really sad that Google is more interested in helping a country out who is single handedly trying to ruin the IT business, rather than help out Americans.

Engadget > *

Instead of cutting 5000 US jobs, why don't they cut the India-based Call Center that is RUINING their already damaged name, and put proper support back in the US? I mean, unless they don't care that they are losing more and more customer confidence due to India's inability to answer anything aside from what's on their screens.

I'm getting married and we don't even have a tv larger than a 28" CRT! hook me up!

@Phantom:
Get your FACTS straight dude. China's and Russia's satelites are 500+ miles above the atmosphere, meaning it would DAMAGE other satelites to try and take them down. THAT is why we don't want them doing it, due to them possibly destroying communication satelites.

America was able to do this because their's is close enough to Earth that it will be pulled in via gravity and burned up in the atmosphere.

Way to go moron. Way to be an idiot.