As someone who has to try to stop duplicate registrations for a simple event website, where people are not even trying to create double entries on purpose, I totally agree with your assessment that it can start to erode the usability of a site. So be careful with it. :)
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote: > > Just to play the other side of the argument here...there are lots of > technical ways to make things more and more secure. The downside to > almost all of them is that it also makes the process more difficult. > I've seen a bunch of clients over the years that get fixated on making > things "totally secure" and completely lose usability in the process. > Trying to root out the possibility that 1 in 100 people might dick you > over can result in another 20 never bothering to go through with their > purchase because you made it too difficult. Yeah, you made it "more > secure" but you lost more than you gained and that should always be > the bottom line. > > There's a reason that stores figure shoplifting loses into their > pricing models. Work on finding and preventing the big stuff. Don't > sacrifice usability for the sake of trying to prevent every last > little thing. Just something to think about as you meet with them. > > Cheers, > Judah > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I have a bit flag in the DB for the barcode already, so when > someone registers and they are given a barcode, then I flag it as being > used in the barcode table. 0 > > Anyway, as I said earlier, I have a meeting next week with the client > and I am sure that this issue will be resolved then. I am just thinking > ahead. > > > > Bruce > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353605 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
