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Usable security: how to get it

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 11

Pages 25 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/1592761.1592773

Published: 01 November 2009 Publication History

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Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? It's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.

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Privacy and security

Usable security: how to get it
1. Security and privacy
  1. Systems security
    1. Operating systems security
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Computer crime

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Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 11

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November 2009

135 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1592761

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