Remember my password "Not Now" – A Procrastinator's Delight
I like nearly everyone on the planet have a bit of an issue with procrastination. If something can be done now, but it could also be done later, why not later? While there are a good many articles on how bad for you procrastination is for you I am not going to choose to dwell on it here. Instead I’ll refer you to my betters here and here. Instead I would like to dwell on this…
The trouble with this confirmation is all the thoughts that go through my head everytime I see it.
The obvious
“Do I want to have my password remembered here?”
“How sensitive is this password?”
“How public is this computer?”
The more obscure
“Do I want to have to remember this password?”
“If I say yes, I will lose that reminder of what this password is and may forget it! Then what will I do?”
And rather than making any decision after all those thoughts, I just click “Not Now” and walk away feeling defeated, that once again I couldn’t make this decision. If there is a one-password-to-rule-them-all solution that is reasonably secure that would be nice, but it seems like a pretty difficult problem.
Oh yeah, and I would like to make one more button on that confirmation dialog box. It’s the “if I get my password right, then remember it” button.
