Brutkey

mhoye
@mhoye@mastodon.social

@mntmn@mastodon.social This kind of thing has been going on in Linux UIs for ages and it is just the most bonkers, infuriating thing. We spend all this time telling people to be extra careful to avoid sharing passwords and phishing anything and then build and apparently tolerate dialogs that say "put in your password" with no useful information why or any way to validate any claims or anything.

I mean, what are we even doing here?

Cybarbie
@nf3xn@mastodon.social

@mhoye@mastodon.social @mntmn@mastodon.social Absolutely horrible user experience. Which application, which password. Does the keyring even exist? What is a keyring? All stuff aged grandmother is not going to know.

mhoye
@mhoye@mastodon.social

@nf3xn@mastodon.social This isn't "elderly grandparent perplexity" material! I've been neck deep in linux professionally for like 30 years and I don't know what's going on here. @mntmn@mastodon.social, without exaggeration, makes and sells his own boutique computers and doesn't know what's going on here.

How is anyone supposed to make a rational, informed judgment about this?

Tom Walker
@tomw@mastodon.social

@mhoye@mastodon.social @nf3xn@mastodon.social @mntmn@mastodon.social Yes, there is simply no way for anyone regardless of skill level to know wtf is going on when the prompt says "an application" and there is no way whatsoever to tell which application.

The dialog is a complete failure and active security risk.