RE: Opera's three security levels from Hallam-Baker, Phillip on 2006-11-27 (public-wsc-wg@w3.org from November 2006)

From: Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@verisign.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:47:09 -0800
To: "Amir Herzberg" <herzbea@macs.biu.ac.il>, "Michael\(tm\) Smith" <mikes@opera.com>
Cc: <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <198A730C2044DE4A96749D13E167AD37E7E772@MOU1WNEXMB04.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>

> [mailto:public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Amir Herzberg

> Users care about security, and will more and more, thanks to 
> the phishers... but this does not mean, they have to 
> understand security mechanisms or indicators. As long as the 
> indicators and their use are simple and non-obtrusive, users 
> will use them.

Any security indicator has to answer the question that the user is already asking.

Does the user ask 'is this safe?' or do they ask 'is this Bizybank?' ?

Received on Monday, 27 November 2006 14:49:01 UTC