On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:56 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> No one is going to opt-out, either. I already feel like a criminal opting-out 
> of the huge "invalid SSL certificate" warnings

For what it's worth, we know that the "invalid SSL cert" warning is
triggered by attackers trying to hack people's network traffic. I.e.
it's not just an annoyance which you, or anyone else, should just
ignore and click through. In some cases the warning comes up when
nothing bad is about to happen and everything actually is safe, but
that's not always the case.

The same thing applies to the malware warnings that we put up on
various websites.

My point is that things aren't as clear cut here. It's not the case
that user's only ever navigate to places that they intend to, and that
are safe. Nor is it the case that the browser always knows with
certainty when something is bad.

That said, there are many many bad ways of implementing these types of
"protections". But I would not assume that mozilla would use any of
those until I see evidence of otherwise.

Rather than guessing what mozilla may or may not do based on the
comments of someone that is not part of the mozilla community, it'd be
better to try to get some facts.

/ Jonas
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