Security is not to be taken lightly so in recent days I’ve become increasingly frustrated by the insistance of some companies to disable the facility to paste passwords into login forms. Rather then increase security, this cripples those of us using password managers such as KeePass or 1Password, as the nice long randomly-generated passwords cannot be simply pasted into the password field. Instead users are forced to manually type in passwords which will promote the use of shorter passwords (and thereby weaken security). Continue reading →