This sort of slipshod rubbish is why security on the internet is so hosed these days. If Dell can’t be trusted to get an SSL certificate that has the right name of the server, who can? Schoolboy error, as Ron Manager would say.
The danger here is that people start to see this kind of crap, and blindly click on ‘OK’. If it’s Dell, it must be safe, right? The next time they see this kind of popup, it’s less scary, so just click on the OK button and you’ll be fine, don’t worry about the implications, just a minor mistake.
No wonder people still fall for phishing tricks and 419 chain emails. The example from ‘The Experts’ is pretty piss poor.
