CWE-655: Insufficient Psychological Acceptability
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The product has a protection mechanism that is too difficult or inconvenient to use, encouraging non-malicious users to disable or bypass the mechanism, whether by accident or on purpose.
What the weakness is: CWE-655 at MITRE. All weaknesses
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Explain CWE-655: Insufficient Psychological Acceptability and how to prevent and detect it in code. Use https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/655.html and https://cve.bz/cve/cwe/655?via=ask-ai-copy for recent CVEs with this weakness. Cite the sources.Opens a third-party assistant; its answer is its own, not cve.bz's. The prompt holds only this weakness's id and public links.
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