On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
The current alert just say "hey, you are insecure!", but it does not tell the user what should he do. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
