Vista’s Security Downfall: User Tunnel Vision
Commentary, Microsoft | (2)
Gadgetophile (great blog, by the way) has mentioned something today that really seems to hit the nail on the head to me.
Microsoft has upped security so that when a program that could be potentially harmful is run, either by the user or by some other means, Windows will ask permission before actually running it. The dialogue contains two buttons - Allow and Cancel - but Microsoft have totally missed a principal design idea with this: user tunnel vision.
These boxes will very quickly become an automatic thing for less tech-savvy users; automatically clicking Allow, that is. Gadgetophile uses the example that ...
