Re: About SSL "Trick or Treat" Dialogs
- From: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
- To: Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu>
- Cc: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, stef memberwebs com, "desktop-devel-list gnome org" <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: About SSL "Trick or Treat" Dialogs
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:26:26 +0100
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:12 -0500, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> > Unfortunately, one of the main UI elements that indicate a secure
> > connection is the https:// URL in the URL bar. Are you proposing to
> > disguise that as well?
>
> Maybe just not shade it yellow. It will still be running over ssl
> like Stef said, just not "securely".
People don't pay much attention to those hints anyway. They think that a
site is secure if they clicked on a "Secure Payment" link, if they even
have a concept of secure sites. There's no real answer to this, I'm
afraid, so sorry for the noise.
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