On 2010-05-17 10:31 PDT, johnjbarton wrote: > On 5/17/2010 10:23 AM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
>> My favorite quote: >> "Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, >> users will pick dancing pigs every time." >> >> It's so true. If you really want to disable all security warnings, >> there is a Firefox extension that will do it. Just use it. Maybe you >> could even improve it to display dancing pigs! > > The quote above was taken out of context. I went and did a web search on that sentence. Guess what I found. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/reviewguide.html#challenges "Mozilla Security Review and Best Practices Guide" says > Many of our potential users are inexperienced computer users, who do not > understand the risks involved in using interactive Web content. This > means we must rely on the user's judgement as little as possible. As > Edward Felten says, "given the choice between dancing pigs and security, > users will choose dancing pigs every time." -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
