- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:11:51 +0100
- To: michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com
- Cc: beltzner@mozilla.com, ifette@google.com, Anil.Saldhana@redhat.com, hahnt@us.ibm.com, public-wsc-wg@w3.org, Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com
On 2008-01-10 12:39:54 -0600, michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com wrote: > I agree. But the more variables the security indicator takes > into account, the more helpful it becomes for users making trust > decisions. FWIW, I think that this statement is broad enough to be false for at least some use cases. E.g., if I'm out to get the evening news, then I'm not necessarily interested in knowing whether the server I interact with is one that I should trust with my credit card, even though I might be interested to know whether it's really the news from the source I'm expecting to interact with, or whether there are some folks interfering with my phone line in the neighbor's garden. (To just take the most obvious xkcd-inspired use case. Software installation is another one.) -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>
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