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DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique

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134 points shinzub | 2 comments | 14 Jan 25 04:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
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maxrmk ◴[17 Jan 25 19:52 UTC] No.42742521[source]▶
This is clever, and I got a good laugh out of their example video. The demo UI of "Double click here" isn't very convincing - I bet there's a version of this that gets people to double click consistently though.
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bee_rider ◴[17 Jan 25 21:21 UTC] No.42743385[source]▶
Hmm. I guess it is never impossible that there’s a version of something that will trick people consistently. But, I’m kinda struggling to recall a time I’ve needed to double click on a website.

Actually the double-click action is pretty rare nowadays, right? In particular, I use it a lot to select a word in a terminal, but most of the time when I am getting UI instructions it is from a website about how to use the website itself, and since that’s a website it has to be abstract enough to also make sense for mobile users.

Telling people to double click is, I think, mostly dead.

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1. foobazgt ◴[17 Jan 25 21:31 UTC] No.42743495[source]▶
My mother constantly struggles between when to double click or not after decades of using computers. This is probably an issue that will die out with her generation, though.

Entirely separate, a common failure mode of dying mice is that they start generating spurious clicks. I've had a couple of logitechs do this to me. And the thing about scams is you can often legit make money off of very low success rates.

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2. JadeNB ◴[17 Jan 25 22:27 UTC] No.42743947[source]▶
> Entirely separate, a common failure mode of dying mice is that they start generating spurious clicks.

Speaking of things dying out, it's been so long since I used anything but a trackpad that I thought at first this was some strange claim about rodents!