Butler Lampson
This is a Viewpoint column for the Communications of the ACM. It’s three pages long.
Citation: Comm. ACM 52, 11 (Nov. 2009), pp 25-27.
Links: Abstract, Acrobat, Web page, Word
Email: blampson@microsoft.com. This paper is at http://research.microsoft.com.
Abstract:
Why does your computer annoy you so much about security, but still fail to be secure?
It’s because users don’t have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.