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Secure Interaction Design
Pingster writes "Next week, ICICS 2002 will take place in Singapore.
Out of
40 papers at the conference,
there will be just
one paper
that looks at human factors.
Though many people know that
usability problems can render
even the strongest security useless,
the security community has only
recently started paying attention to usability issues.
More serious
thinking about usability and security
is desperately needed.
The paper proposes
ten
interaction design principles.
Maybe you'll find them obvious;
maybe you'll disagree with them entirely.
Great!
Let's have a discussion."
Poorly organized. Lynx-optimized website (with only two pages), only two months to write papers, an overly broad topic, and being held in a pseudo-third world country, away from the main countries where most research is being done, don't exactly add up to success. I'll be surprised if they register more than 500 attendees.
- 10 character passwords, non-dictionary words, alpha-numeric. Safe, but can't remember them. So you write it on a post it note.
not really...my technique is to use easy-to-remember phrases, only you convert applicable letters to numbers 1337-style.