{"id":252,"date":"2012-02-27T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T21:35:49","slug":"security-vs-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Security vs Usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ahh the age old battle between Security and Usability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope in the future that we arrive at these conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: hyphen;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Obscurity is not security<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Security problems most popular in the news (and in Congress) are the least common in reality<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Current forms of security don&#8217;t work for people and the data proves that<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Most implementations widely used only provide the perception of security<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Nothing is uncrackable or unhackable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: hyphen;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Usability is usually more important than security<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Security need only be sufficient to demoralize malice, while usability must succeed in actually enticing interest in an unappealing activity (luring is more difficult than impeding)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">When we make more usable functionality quicker to implement (one line of code) then developers will welcome it<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">When we prove with data that many threats are not reality and security is often overkill then employers can feel good about tipping their investment in favor of usability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently we have a lot of fearful perception and &#8220;what if&#8221; corner cases polluting the landscape. Getting consensus on this topic doesn&#8217;t easily happen right now. Security is entrenched in technology and that point of view is what wins most often, especially in the States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh the age old battle between Security and Usability. I hope in the future that we arrive at these conclusions: Obscurity is not security Security problems most popular in the news (and in Congress) are the least common in reality Current forms of security don&#8217;t work for people and the data proves that Most implementations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,27,19,39,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}