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I think the issue is an issue of education. When I see the 'green' colour followed by the word 'secure' when visiting a website using chrome, I know that this
by ldd 10y ago
I think the issue is an issue of education.
When I see the 'green' colour followed by the word 'secure' when visiting a website using chrome, I know that this does not mean immediately that I have to trust the site. I presume the vast majority of hacker news readers will know better too. But what about the normal, average users?
I think we should just be more proactive in telling people what an SSL certificate actually is, and what https guarantees. Otherwise, we are not really having a discussion.
- zzzcpan 10y agoNo, it's not about education, it's about a decent UX with some kind of anomaly based warning system and privacy protection. It's really easy to detect a fishing attempt. I've seen this idea proposed by security people in the past. But it might have serious consequences for an advertisement industry, so you won't see this in popular web browsers. You just have to accept that browser vendors don't care about security and you, as a user, is their product.