Re: Is a non-yellow address bar cause for concern when HTTPS isinvolved?

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Subject:	Re: Is a non-yellow address bar cause for concern when HTTPS isinvolved?
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	Ron Hunter
Date:	15 Jul 2007

Aggro wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>> I use the Skypilot Classic theme, and the secure indication is green
>> (which makes MUCH better sense than yellow).
>
> There is one problem with green. It indicates that the web page is safe.
> Now, assume that evil criminal would setup a https page to steal one's
> money. When you visit the site, location bar turns to green, because it
> is https, so you assume that it is a safe site, so you give your bank
> account information and the person steals your money.
>
> Yellow is not so obvious of what it means, so people first need to ask
> what it means. And when they do, they get told that it means that the
> connection is encrypted, but that is all. The person on the server side
> should be trusted, before submitting any valuable information.
>
> So thus, the yellow actually make better sense than green. Microsoft
> managed to make things ever worse. They have green, yellow and red
> colors. Where
> red = phishing site
> yellow = possibly a phishing site
> green = SSL certificate
>
> Now, without knowing this, one can very easily assume that red is a
> phishing site, so green must be a non-phishing site. So green sites must
> be safe to use, and all the others are not safe. And this is very
> dangerous to assume.
>
'green' sites with Skypilot are encrypted. Safety is much more complex
than that. I just have a feeling for certain sites, encrypted or not,
and won't enter data into them.

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Ron Hunter rphunter
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