# Polymorphic Security Warnings May Reduce Habituation and Preserve User Adherence

DevFeed: [Polymorphic Security Warnings May Reduce Habituation and Preserve User Adherence](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/polymorphic-warnings-on-my-mind-36941.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/polymorphic-warnings-on-my-mind/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-computer-interaction-and-visualization.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Users](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/users.md>)

Tags: [effectiveness](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/effectiveness.md>), [experiment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiment.md>), [human-computer-interaction](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-computer-interaction.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [paper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paper.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses research on habituation to security warnings. The reported experiments found that attention and adherence declined with repeated exposure, while polymorphic warnings reduced the decline and helped maintain adherence to privacy permission warnings.

## Source excerpt

The more we see it, the more we ignore it.