Are Usability & Security Opposites in Computing?

krozinov writes "Instinct tells us that computer security and computer usability are inversely proportional to each other. In other words, the tougher and stricter the security is, the less usability there is, and vice versa. However, there have been plenty of cases where both computer security and computer usability went hand in hand with each other and actually improved together. In the last few years security has been the biggest buzzword in computer systems and as such has become part of our computer systems. Before that, computer systems were all about getting it done faster and easier, but now they must also do it securely. Can the two continue growing together? This paper argues that it can, as evident by the most recent Indian Assembly Election."

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I always found

[madaxe42]

That computers are like women. Insecure, and unusable.

Re:Of course not.

[strict3]

Jeremiah Cornelius (137)
I got a box, what can do noffin' but f*ck*'n security, you see? Like, it gots itself one n'er vese firewalls, wot's good fer makin' sure you can't get no f*ck*'n diseases from the Internets, inn'it? Now, is you a girl or really a boy?

Wow, now there's proof that having a lower user id means nothing.