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It's called a 'secure attention sequence' [1] and the idea is it makes sure the user only enters their password into the login box - not a fake login box on a full screen website or something like that.

Google plus has one terrific feature: it's a safe choice for both websites and users as an oauth login.

I don't want anything that requires a login or an account with Microsoft to be available.

And so doesn't have tracking cookies (including login cookies for anything social).

I had an account on lonestar.sdf.org, but then I let it lapse and there was a change to the server name/login.

I don't want to be forced to login to software before I use it.

Personally, I get very little value out of the platform and although I do have a FB account I login only three or four times a year.

It had no physical keyboard, relying instead on handwriting recognition or an on screen keyboard, but it had a dedicated button with a picture of a key on to begin the login sequence.

>I don't want to be forced to login to software before I use it.

I have my Facebook disabled most of the time, but every once in a while i login to see what's going on with some folks across the pond and all I see is everyone reposting news.

Once Google started doing things like trying to force people to link their YouTube and Gmail accounts I got off the bandwagon (I now not only don't login to YouTube I block YouTube from setting cookies altogether).

Which is why you enable Multi Factor Authentication beforehand and make sure the roles you assign the instances you create don't have write access except for the one bastion, which you make sure doesn't have root login or even access to the public internet except for your IP but still have access to your private servers via VPCs.

Single-login that replaces the "please click on the over-18 button" landing page, with age verification probably done via entering a credit card.

He's essentially saying he would have preferred a single "Reboot" key on the keyboard, then would have used that to begin the login sequence?

If he really believed it then why didn't the Microsoft Natural keyboard, which added the Windows logo keys and the menu key, also add a special "login" button?

> Later in an interview, Bradley said he didn't understand why Gates and Microsoft decided to make it a login feature, adding that "I guess it made sense for them." I thought it was because it's a secure attention sequence to prevent login spoofing, since that cannot be emulated software in userland.

Her main argument is also a little too wide-eyed - she basically says that because the poster is factually correct (she is an engineer, she works at One Login, she likes working there) it shouldn't be receiving all the attention and criticism.