Re: Secure Chrome

On Friday 21 April 2006 15:58, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> A user is a finite state machine, the states being:
>
> 1) Not suspicious
>
> 2) Suspicious
>
> 3) Phished
>
> 4) Safe
>
>
> I agree that it is pretty hard to raise an event that causes the user to
> change state from Not suspicious to suspicious.
>
> That is not the main point here. What I really want is a way to ensure that
> a user who enters the state suspicious reliably ends up in the state Safe.
>
> At the moment there is no way for the suspicious user to quickly and
> effectively determine whether they are under attack or not.

   I think that's a good point.  However it's also important to make sure that 
the suspicious state occurs before the user even starts to fill a form.  
Filling a form compromises the data even before the submit button is pressed.

-- 
George Staikos
KDE Developer    http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc.  http://www.staikos.net/

Received on Saturday, 22 April 2006 12:39:54 UTC