On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:55:08PM -0000, Robert Shiels wrote:
> > Not that I necessarily agree with what this says, it's definately
> interesting
> > and worth thinking about:
> > Security and Human Factors
> > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001126.html
> Basically a lot of password restrictions sound like a good idea in theory,
> but when real people have to cope with them they fail miserably.
I always get conflicted on this.
On the one hand we fundamentally want systems people can use, otherwise
there's no point.
But on the other I think there has to be room for at least *some* education,
otherwise we'd have people sitting down at a computer having never seen
one before, not being able to use one, and us concluding computers
being a bad idea and giving up on the whole thing.
But the question is, where do we put the middle ground?
Michael
