Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

[YoKenny]

Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

By John Timmer | Published: September 23, 2008 - 05:15AM CT

 

For most of us, security issues happen to "other people"?we block popup ads, we carefully examine dialog boxes and, for those of us on the Mac platform, we snicker when confronted with something that attempts to mimic a Windows system warning. But everyone knows that they are exceptional?what's the behavior of a more typical user like? Some researchers have tested how college students respond to fake dialog boxes in browser popup windows and found that the students are so anxious to get the dialog out of the way, they click right through obvious warning signs.

http://arstechnica.com:80/news.ars/post/20...are-idiots.html

[DennisD]

Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

 

I really think that's a pretty unjustified comment. All it confirms is that most users are inexperienced, and do what most of us would if we'd had no experience with PC's other than using them at college.

 

It's easy to wax lyrical with experience behind you, but for most people, the PC is just a not often used tool, and not a way of life.