‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly

Re:‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopel... by david-given on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:39PM (#12655414)

...and then the web page can pop up another alert before you have time to do anything else.

    for (;;) alert("spam!");

Chrome will, at least, give you an option to disable the alerts if it thinks you're getting them too often, but by that point you're well into scary territory.

Footnote: just tried it in Chrome, and after disabling popups I got a tab which was spinning using 100% CPU and which was completely uninteractive. I couldn't even close it using the x on the tab and I had to kill it via the Chrome task manager. Hmmm...

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Re:‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopel... by clarry on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:53PM (#12655533)

There was a time when using vimperator with firefox you'd always be able to focus the command prompt and enter a command like :q to close the tab, even if there's an active alert popup on the screen.

It's hilarious to me that this thing is still a problem when it's technically trivial to solve.

Actually I don't know if the feature was due to vimperator, firefox, or just my window manager.

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Re:‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopel... by Mystrl on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:48PM (#12655971)

I have no idea what you're talking about. I tried it and after the first popup there's a checkbox to disable any more popups. It didn't affect any of my other tabs and I could kill the process of that one tab through task manager.

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