Device type preferences of type "password" should be hidden

[minollo]

I have a couple of device types which have preferences of type password…
input(“TCpassword”, “password”, title: “Password”, description: “Your TC password”)
…and that password is displayed in clear when looking at my device’s details. I would expect a password is never displayed in clear on a page, unless I explicitly decide to do so.

[Slowfoxtrot (Brock Haymond)]

No kidding! I just noticed the same thing and created a topic for this also! I hope they can update this because right now it makes me quite nervous! +10! +10000000000!

Password protection in preferences!

I have just noticed that in the “preferences” pane of each device all the settings are shown in plain text. For one of my devices I have entered a password. When I click “edit” on the preferences it stars out * each letter but on the device preference screen the password is just shown in PLAIN TEXT? I’m sure this is a simple oversight. The ST IDE obviously knows the value is a password to star it out when editing, so I would suspect it would be fairly simple to star out the password on the device screen! Thoughts? Thanks!

[slide531 (CG)]

I’m surprised that this doesn’t concern more people. The documentation states that password fields are obscured in the UI, but have apparently been shown in plain text for almost a year.