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Expecting people to get training to have a nuanced reaction to symbols used in security is a lost cause for web browsing. The mystique of the web is long gone. Its an every person thing now and reduced to binary decisions.

Web browser developers need to make some decisions to make clear what is safe, probably safe, and an threat. Lumping wrong, but probably safe things in with threats means that users will ignore threats. Look at the history of Windows and users just clicking dialogue boxes without reading.



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