Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa...
by astura on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:02AM
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I don't recall the source, so I'm not sure of the accuracy, but I read that this is what happened, the employee clicked through the confirmation screen.
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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa...
by gus_massa on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:18AM
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Does the "drill" link also have a confirmation screen? Do the two confirmation screen look equal or they are different?
If they are equal (for example a generic message like "Are you sure?") then it's almost like no confirmation, because people get trained to click it automatically.
I think that ideally each one must have a "nice" image about the alarm, that is very different from the other images.
Another possibility is to force the user to retype the message, so the user must read and understand the actual message to be send. (Remember to disallow cut and paste.) (Allow a small number of typos, perhaps a Levenshtein distance of 4 or 5, because the user will be probably nervous if there are some incoming missiles.)