Viewpoint: Usable Security—How To Get It

 

Butler Lampson

 

This is a Viewpoint column for the Communications of the ACM. It’s three pages long.

Citation: Comm. ACM 52, 11 (Nov. 2009), pp 25-27.

Links: Abstract, Acrobat, Web page, Word

Email: blampson@microsoft.com. This paper is at http://research.microsoft.com.

 Abstract:

Why does your computer annoy you so much about security, but still fail to be secure?

It’s because users don’t have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.