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> Why is it such a problem to ask the user to enter their account password before viewing this prefpane? You're trying to prevent my friends from fetching my e
by euyyn 13y ago
> Why is it such a problem to ask the user to enter their account password before viewing this prefpane?
You're trying to prevent my friends from fetching my email password to look secretly at my self-nude pictures.
Justin is trying to prevent my enemies from fetching my email password to gain access to my bank account and rob me of all my money.
His point is Chrome preventing the former threat, while useful by itself, can lead me to believe that I'm also protected against enemies with physical access. This belief, as we know, makes preventing the latter threat impossible. As he cares way more about the latter threat, he thinks it's counterproductive to defend against the former.
> All of your marketing screams about how secure chrome is
To be fair, that refers to being secure against remote attackers, which is the primary concern of a browser since there's not much the user can do about it by himself.
- nazbot 13y agoYeah but his point is really silly. He's trying to make the argument that by making it impossible to lock the car we won't leave valuables in it. His argument is that since a person could just smash the windows and open the car that way there's no point in putting locks on the door. It's just a very myopic and weirdly out of touch position. He seems to think that he's 'training' users to have more secure practices? This isn't the business world. You don't get to blame the user for not being security experts. He should be doing everything in his power to make it inconvenient and difficult to access a user's passwords.