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the-decreasing-usefulness-of-positive-visual-security-indicators-and-the-importance-of-negative-ones

The Decreasing Usefulness of Positive Visual Security Indicators (and the Importance of Negative Ones)

Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks? If there isn't one, the website could be fake. If it had a padlock, you could trust it and there's weren't a lot of exceptions to that. So much so that Barclays Bank have found themselves in hot water over this ad : See the problem? But the option does not exist.

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The Decreasing Usefulness of Positive Visual Security Indicators (and the Importance of Negative Ones)

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