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by interpol_p 4698 days ago
Right but that's really not going to help in most situations.

You've never handed your laptop to a friend to quickly check something on the web?

It would be insulting if you were to explicitly logout whenever someone wants to use your computer for a few seconds / minutes. This flaw makes it easy to view passwords in seconds, and makes it easy to do so in an inconspicuous manner.

It's a user interface failing more than a security issue.