After seeing a segment on “The Real Hustle” on Wi-Fi hacking, I enabled SSL on my Gmail account hoping that would ward off any hacker’s attempts to view my impressive of Viagra spam.
But I noticed that my Chrome browser had highlighted the address bar in yellow and clicking on the triangular warning icon, I was presented with this dialog box
Whilst I understand they cannot secure all elements of the page, it does after all, contain images from other websites, I think the language they are using is very confusing. It talks about unsecured resources and how they could be compromised by hackers! Scary stuff to the lay person.
Google do try and speak plain language, but this time they’ve dropped the ball. It’s no wonder that Chrome just isn’t taking off as the browser of choice!
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