System Security Through System Breakdown

The last post discussed the “dancing bunnies” problem and offered a resolution by triggering an instinctive “danger” response from the user. While considering the problem, I started thinking: would this problem always exist? Is it a definitive feature of user-system interface, or is it a problem relating to the core of being “human”? We, the people of Troy The city of Troy was a secure system. They had strong walls, alert guards, and were well trained, until this appeared: (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  November 19th, 2008  |  Filed under Development, Standardization
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Secure System, Secure User

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror wrote some months back on the fake user interface, and its ability to trick innocent users into running malicious software. It was on my to-do list for a while, but now I noticed a link to another post from three years ago, discussing the “dancing bunnies” problem (aka the “dancing pigs” problem), as formulated by Larry Osterman: It’s a description of what happens when a user receives an email message that says “click here to (read more...)

By Ran Arad  |  November 12th, 2008  |  Filed under Development
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