Are Usability & Security Opposites in Computing?

Not that Slash­dot needs the traf­fic, but they are dis­cussing some­thing that might be of inter­est to this crowd. “Instinct tells us that com­puter secu­rity and com­puter usabil­ity are inversely pro­por­tional to each other…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.” They then, with­out irony, link to a pdf white paper.

Reply

or