On 20/07/12 09:39, Jan Schejbal wrote:
> Except for 2010, every year since 2008 has had at least one significant
> change to the SSL indicator. This means that each time we finally
> managed to teach users what to look for, that changed.

And what we've ended up with now is an indicator that's really hard to
see :-(

> Training users is hard. Training users to look for SSL indicators is
> even harder, as not only do all browsers use different indicators, they
> also change all the time. Users trained to ignore locks in the favicon
> location (due to spoofing) will now need to be re-trained to look and
> trust just in the place they had been trained not to trust.
> 
> The damage has already been done, so it is pointless discussing the
> change or reverting it, that would just cause more chaos. Just please
> strongly consider to stop changing the SSL indicators ever year.

I feel your pain.

Gerv

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