MRIs Show Our Brains Shutting Down When We See Security Prompts

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 21, 2015 @08:47AM from the all-persons-in-this-area-subject-to-palpatio-per-anum dept.

antdude writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRIs) show our brains shutting down when we see security prompts. The MRI images show a "precipitous drop" in visual processing after even one repeated exposure to a standard security warning and a "large overall drop" after 13 of them. Previously, such warning fatigue has been observed only indirectly, such as one study finding that only 14 percent of participants recognized content changes to confirmation dialog boxes or another that recorded users clicking through one-half of all SSL warnings in less than two seconds.

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Of course by heldal · 2015-03-21 08:54 · Score: 5, Funny

I want titties, but these stupid alerts keep popping up
I expect even less brain activity when by burtosis · 2015-03-21 12:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Slashdotters see a new summary. Gonna fess up here i made it about half way through, got bored and posted.
Anecdotal evidence by jrumney · 2015-03-21 13:59 · Score: 4, Funny

I was going to post something insightful, but I got a warning from my browser about sending data over an insecure channel to http://slashdot.org and my brain shut down.