Comment 71 for bug 194472

Any chance this will get fixed in Maverick?

Quite regularly (anywhere between a couple of days and every few weeks), we get a thread like this on the Ubuntu Forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1567907

Easier to count key clicks than asterisks if you're standing behind someone. Lack of visual feedback offers no security advantage--just comfort to *nix users who are used to it.