Re: Fwd: Re: [Cryptography] Encryption opinion
"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]>
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Rob Meijer wrote: > > The big problem is: how do you create a fearless usability path for people > poisoned with a combination of the Pavlovian password-popup solutions and > a 'security awareness' mindset? > We ran into this problem with SCoopFS when one of our users asked us how to turn on security. All we could think of was to change the splash screen to say "Enabling Secure Interactions." I don't know how much that helped. Maybe we should have just popped up some security dialog boxes at random times. They wouldn't have to do anything, just annoy the user into feeling secure. They might also serve to distract attackers. ________________________ Alan Karp Principal Scientist Enterprise Services, Office of the CTO Hewlett-Packard Company 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-7029 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp