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Simplifying the Page Security Icon in Chrome (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
1 point by joshzayin on Oct 14, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Wow, this is incredibly stupid: conflating http and https with minor errors. It should show half a lock icon and half of a page icon, diagonally-split to indicate mixed/unsecured content. Globbing the two together creates false comfort and hides problems.




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