On 5/17/2010 11:58 AM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
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."
Wow, now that is over the top! How incredibly obnoxious. So the view of
mozilla.org is that their users are incompetent fools. I wonder why you
care about security for these 'idiots'?
If this is the attitude of the best browser security, no wonder we have
so many problems.
jjb
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