Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use

An anonymous reader writes: Dropbox, Google, and the Open Technology Fund have announced a new organization focused on making open source security tools easier to use. Called Simply Secure, the initiative brings together security researchers with experts in user interaction and design to boost adoption rates for consumer-facing security solutions. The companies point out that various security options already do exist, and are technically effective. Features like two-factor authentication remain useless, however, because users don't adopt them due to inconvenience or technical difficulty.

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Pro Tip:

[jsepeta]

When performing maintenance on Sundays, don't turn off passwords for your entire userbase, DROPBOX.

Bonus tip:
Hiring Condoleeza Rice told me everything I need to know about you jackasses. If I want to use cloud storage, every other vendor in the world doesn't employ war criminals. So it's easy to choose a vendor who doesn't upset my conscious.

assmonkeys