Whoa! I wondered about that!! Lock Icon was gone and it’s not a “switch” indication “options” icon.
You know, a good bit of the time is a programmer getting excited with a new UI API and switches to it!! Imo, there was no need for that change, Everything in the options was 100% about security and privacy related. So what if the laymen didn’t know what it was. The default is set for unsecured communications. Focus on that, the secured defaults. The 10-20% experts that did know this intuitively with the lock icon was did not have an issue. Sometimes the first inclination is the best. Go with your GUTS. Always works in the long term. All the best, Hector Santos > On Feb 5, 2024, at 8:50 PM, Dave Crocker <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote: > Om > On 2/5/2024 2:08 PM, Jim Fenton wrote: >> On 5 Feb 2024, at 14:02, Dave Crocker wrote: >>> On 2/5/2024 1:56 PM, Jim Fenton wrote: >>>> And you will also provide citations to refereed research about what you >>>> just asserted as well, yes? >>> Ahh, you want me to prove the negative. That's not exactly how these things >>> go. >> You said that the URL lock symbol failed. Asking for research to back that >> up is not asking for you to prove the negative. > > Ahh. Defending by attacking. Nice. > > But actually, given what I said, yes it is being asked to prove the negative. > > > I said it's been a failure. Failure means that after many years, it has not > been a success. Were the symbol successful, we'd see reductions in user > understanding, awareness and resistance abuse. > > Do we have serious data that it has been? If so, where is it? Do we even > have an anecdotal sense of widespread utility? I think not. > > But wait. There's more... > > All of the following are strong indicators of failure: > > "In our study, we asked a cross-section > <https://techxplore.com/tags/cross+section/> of 528 web users > <https://techxplore.com/tags/web+users/>, aged between 18 and 86 years of > age, a number of questions about the internet. Some 53% of them held a > bachelor's degree or above and 22% had a college certificate, while the > remainder had no further education. > > One of our questions was, "On the Google Chrome browser bar, do you know what > the padlock icon represents/means?" > > Of the 463 who responded, 63% stated they knew, or thought they knew, what > the padlock symbol on their web browser meant, but only 7% gave the correct > meaning." > > https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-idea-padlock-icon-internet-browser.html > > https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/06/fbi-warning-lock-icon-doesnt-mean-website-safe/157629/ > > 'In an alert published Monday <https://www.ic3.gov/media/2019/190610.aspx>, > the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, warned that scammers > are using the public’s trust in website certificates as part of phishing > campaigns. > > “The presence of ‘https’ and the lock icon are supposed to indicate the web > traffic is encrypted and that visitors can share data safely,” the bureau > wrote in the alert. “Unfortunately, cyber criminals are banking on the > public’s trust of ‘https’ and the lock icon.” ' > > https://theconversation.com/the-vast-majority-of-us-have-no-idea-what-the-padlock-icon-on-our-internet-browser-is-and-its-putting-us-at-risk-216581 > > https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-tiny-icon-on-your-screen-but-almost-nobody-knows-why > > https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709498/google-chrome-lock-icon-web-browser-https-security-update-redesign > > https://www.howtogeek.com/890033/google-chrome-is-ditching-the-lock-icon-for-websites/ > > > > d/ > > > -- > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social > <mailto:mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social>_______________________________________________ > Ietf-dkim mailing list > Ietf-dkim@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-dkim
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