Re: 2 questions

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:10:06AM +0200, Glen wrote:
> Well protecting some is better than protecting none at all.

Some things are just worse than useless.

> Also:
> 
> - I don't believe that it will be that frequent. A lot of the larger sites
> are already on HTTPS (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), and many more will
> follow, especially if Firefox/Chrome refuse to support HTTP/2 without TLS.
> - The message does not have to be "obscure", it could be written in layman's
> terms, with links to additional information.
> 
> Do you honestly believe that letting users unknowingly submit private data
> (including passwords) over HTTP is the better option?

This has been tried. It did not work.

- If dialog has "don't show this again" option, it will be checked.
- If not, the dialog will be dismissed unread (the user never even recognizing
  that the warning existed) after the first few times.


-Ilari 

Received on Monday, 13 April 2015 09:33:06 UTC