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Browsers, phishing, and user interface design
Scott Granneman, 2006-06-05

Phishing works for so many reasons, we need to rethink browser and user interface design to provide some real-life security to the average user who doesn't see or understand the security cues.

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Users ignore alert messages... 2006-06-20
Anonymous
...because they try to explain, in a single popup with a nice "OK" button in the middle, what the whole story behind that alert is all about.

Consider this: the user is just trying to browse a site and the browser comes up saying "wait a moment: I have to tell you a long but interesting story".
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