Scott Granneman, 2005-12-12
There are many examples where users are now being inundated with pop-up messages asking them to respond to things they don't know about or don't understand, and it leads to weaker security overall.
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Users inundated with pop-ups
2005-12-13
Erik Norgaard (1 replies)
Erik Norgaard (1 replies)
Users inundated with pop-ups
2005-12-20
3mu180r
3mu180r
The most powerful tool is the human operator, even the most dangerous when impoperly conditioned.
Desensitization is indeed a deservice to society. People need to work for what they want, they need to know how to take care of themselves, if forced, they will do it. It is absurd to conclude with,...
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Desensitization is indeed a deservice to society. People need to work for what they want, they need to know how to take care of themselves, if forced, they will do it. It is absurd to conclude with,...
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Users inundated with pop-ups
2005-12-23
Alexey Vesnin
Alexey Vesnin
Agreed, but there is another VERY good idea from Unix'es - modules. For example - when you're setting up FreeBSD you'll have to setup a basic core and add and add modules, components and packages - until you'll find yourself looking at the exatly system you wanted. Why not to choose what components ...
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OSX? Huh?
2005-12-23
Penguinisto
Penguinisto
Safari (Mac's default web browser)operates almost the same as Firefox does in the pop-up department (though it's built from Konquerer).
As for the rest of OSX - it's about as dumbed-down as it gets in the new-window-to-ask-questions department.
I do agree about debconf though - it is nice to ...
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As for the rest of OSX - it's about as dumbed-down as it gets in the new-window-to-ask-questions department.
I do agree about debconf though - it is nice to ...
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Pop-up Fatigue
2006-06-27
Andrew
Andrew
Desensitisation is a real issue, I call this Pop-up Fatigue.
We should develop more 'engineered' ways of dealing with this issue. Both the Firefox delay, Firefox default no warnings and IE default continue warnings all have flaws.
Importantly we must reduce the number of distinct pop-ups, and ...
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We should develop more 'engineered' ways of dealing with this issue. Both the Firefox delay, Firefox default no warnings and IE default continue warnings all have flaws.
Importantly we must reduce the number of distinct pop-ups, and ...
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This is neat: It cleverly disables that "just click OK" reflex and - at least first time - makes you read the message.
I do think that users should be asked to accept the responsibility of ...
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