[briar-devel] Foo security

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Sat Aug 18 19:36:56 PDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, b. brewer <bbrewer at littledystopia.net> wrote:
>  ...
> Recently I've been thinking about an idea I'll call foo security,
> since I haven't thought of a better name. It's possible that someone
> else has already thought of this idea, but if so, I don't know what
> they called it.
>
> Foo security is an attempt to rethink information security from a
> usability perspective. It's defined as follows:
>
>   A system is foo secure with respect to a user if the system's
>   security properties match or exceed the user's beliefs about those
>   properties.

this is also known as hypothesis #3. [0]

anything more is a usability liability ;)


0. "Hypothesis #3 -- There is only one Mode, and it is Secure."
  http://iang.org/ssl/h3_there_is_only_one_mode_and_it_is_secure.html





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