Protecting Against Data Breaches; Living With Mistakes
Jason Hong writes about security breaches and offers a three-pronged approach. Greg Linden discusses the differences between computers and the human brain and their tolerance of errors.
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Most Smartphone Apps Are Spyware
Why does this flashlight app use an Internet connection? Why does this Bible quotes app want my location data? Why does this game want my contacts list?
Researchers’ Big Data Crisis; Understanding Design and Functionality
Michael Stonebraker issues a call to arms about research groups' data-management problems. Jason Hong discusses the nature of functionality with respect to design.
Looking past the systems people use, they target the people using the systems.
Is the Computer Security Community Barking Up the Wrong Trees?
There's a big mismatch right now between what the data says about computer security vulnerabilities and what kind of research is being done and products offered.
Password Policies Are Getting Out of Control
At least 9 characters long. No repeated characters. At least 1 number, 1 special character, and 1 capital letter. Cannot be same as last 10 passwords. Must change every 60 days. Oh, and don't write it down either, or use on other sites.
Improving Computer Science Research Collaborations Between U.S. and China
On March 23-24 2011, the National Science Foundation held a workshop looking at how to build more effective collaborations between computer science researchers in the U.S. and in China. This blog entry looks at some of the opportunities that were identified.
Why Have There Been So Many Security Breaches Recently?
We're only five months into this year, but there have been a large number of sensational security breaches. Why have there been so many, and what can we do about it?
Jason Hong discusses how Apple creates well-designed products and what the human-computer interaction community can learn from its methods.
Design, Functionality, and Diffusion of Innovations
What's the relationship between functionality and design? What kinds of factors influence whether people do or don't adopt a technology?
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