Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Bullet (typography)
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Other uses== The bullet glyph is sometimes used as a way to hide passwords or confidential information in a practice known as password masking.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hu |first1=Yuqi |last2=Alroomi |first2=Suood |last3=Sahin |first3=Sena |last4=Li |first4=Frank |chapter=Unmasking the Security and Usability of Password Masking |title=Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security |date=9 December 2024 |pages=4241β4255 |doi=10.1145/3658644.3690333 |chapter-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3658644.3690333 |access-date=19 May 2025 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|isbn=979-8-4007-0636-3 }}</ref> For example, the credit card number {{code|1234 5678 9876 4321}} might be displayed as {{code|β’β’β’β’ β’β’β’β’ β’β’β’β’ 4321}}.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)