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First they take away the status bar with the lock icon, now they take away the address bar. How the hell am I going to educate my users to make sure they're visiting the correct secure site and not some attack site?

It's as if the UI designers saw a sketch on a cocktail napkin once that really impressed them and now they expect us to use a cocktail napkin for a browser. As if it's all just about inconsequential web surfing and party drinks.

No, no need to care about security or strong site authentication. UI designers have completely failed us in that respect, too, with click-through certificate warnings. This just formalizes it I guess.



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