No More Bullets!
Those "bullets" that show up where you type in your password are there to protect you. But web-thinker Jakob Nielsen ("the king of usability") doesn't like them.For one thing, people make more errors where there are bullets, and therefore lose a feeling of trust for the page they're using. That means less business for websites that use bullets.Furthermore, bullets make people more likely to pick simple, easy-to-steal passwords, and to cut-and-paste their passwords. That means a loss of security.Nielsen doesn't want to do away with bullets altogether - they can be useful if you really think there's someone looking over your shoulder. But he suggests that web pages make them optional.Some more thoughts on this from Bruce Schneier.