On Wednesday 03 June 2009 00:59:55 Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Matthew Toseland > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 18:24:48 steve wrote: > >> What good is constantly displaying the security level, unless the user > >> would > >> like to change it frequently for some reason? > >> > >> The node already asks them which level they want at install time and it is > >> easily accessible from the config page, so what do they gain by being > >> constantly reminded which security level they are on? > > > > They might forget! :) > > > > Seriously, right now we constantly display the security levels on the > > homepage, and there's a reason for that: they are important, we want people > > to add friends and upgrade from NORMAL to HIGH. We used to have an explicit > > warning about running opennet for this reason, now we just show the > > security levels. > > If this is the case, the alert / status line should read: "if you add > some friends, your node would be faster, more secure, better, ......" > > The current alert of "Security Level: LOW" have no this effect.
Well it used to say that ... really I am not convinced that it is faster, although I can see it would be more stable ... all that we need users to know is that they do not have as good security as they could have, doesn't the security levels alert fulfill this purpose given that we explain the security levels during installation?
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