"🙋❓🙋 why❓🤔 chrome 🌐 🙅🚫 removed 🚫🙅 the 🔒 lock 😮 icon 🤷🤷" - serena chen (purplecon 2024)

(serena chen) if you've been particularly eagle-eyed, you might've noticed that within the past year or so, the lock icon disappeared from Chrome's address bar. this is the story of why and how that happened, and maybe it's secretly a story about HTTPS and the web ecosystem and the sisyphean task of securing the web as a whole......
it's just an icon, michael. how hard could it be to remove?
serena is an ex-physicist and mathematician, once teen magazine editor-in-chief, foosball enthusiast and hacker at heart. for her day job she's cyber aesthetics doctor at google chrome, leading UX for chrome security.
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Fri Nov 8 16:30:00 2024 at Main Room