Today i accidentally entered wrong login details for facebook and this is what i got "Your login password will be shown to you in plain text below to make text input easier(Your login is still secure)". That message on its own made me even more suspicious. Of course the message was from facebook but the fact that am so used to never being shown password it got me thinking otherwise. Is it any good to show users their password on login and assume they will feel safe ?
Well, where i come from internet is very expensive and very few people can actually afford it. Dial up is affordable. By means of implementing a proxy, which compresses all the data and have a app on a computer that decompresses that data and feed that into the browser, can the dial up connection be as good as low speed broadband ?
Picture below for clarity
web<-fast connection->| proxy server |<--compressed data(dial up)-->app
Am a 3rd year student in Australia studying computer systems and would like to gain some programming experience preferably under the supervision of an experienced programmer. Am competent in c and java. I would like to gain solid skills before i graduate and i think working under the guidance of someone experienced could accelerate that process. I would work completely for free to gain some more experience and maybe a reference.
