Virtual Keyboard

[sansaii]

Title
Virtual Keyboard

Short, concise description of the idea
Provide an in-site click-based virtual keyboard as an alternative to type in a user's username and password for increased security.

Full description of the ideaTo demonstrate an example, the United States Federal Aid for higher education website has this feature

Comments

[pauamma]

Hmm. If I was worried about someone or something installing a keylogger on my computer, I don't think protecting my LiveJournal username and password would be my first concern.

[charliemc]

Hahahahahahaha. Okay, I burst out laughing when I read this one. Clever answer.

[lady_angelina]

Well said.

Especially if you use LJLogin or something that handles the login information for you, in which case, anti-keylogging measures won't be of any use because you never have to type it in manually. Same goes for if you use an email client on your PC and you have the password stored in it, too. (That's a whole other security issue right there, but that's neither here nor there.)

[conuly]

How accessible would this be for, say, folks with vision problems?

[charliemc]

Admittedly, this was a cool feature. But the site you linked us to is a government site -- and they got TONS of $$$ to throw at things like this! (Lots of paid bodies with nothing better to do.)

I don't think it's a good place to put the limited time and money of LiveJournal... Sorry.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Hm. I've seen discussions of these things before now and then. From my personal point of usage, it would need not to interfere with my password managing software (LastPass), which stores all my perfectly randomised 12-character passwords. And it would need to support special characters, because AFAIK LJ requires those now, and because people should use them any way. Also, it would ideally need to be able to handle non-English characters. My passwords might occasionally contain äüö if I'm not careful, and I'm sure there are French people who like their é è ô and Swedes who want to use those things with a stroke through them that my keyboard can't do.